The Ambassadors' Painting of Afrasiab
Envoys from China and Korea come to the king of Samarkand
Around 660 the walls of a hall in the palace of Varkhuman, king of Samarkand, were painted with foreign embassies arriving at court. Among the guests are Chinese bearing silk, Turks with long braids and two Koreans in feathered caps; the murals were found in 1965 during road building.
Wikipedia (English) · 7th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 680 Battle of Ongal — 20 years later
Middle East
- 636 Battle of the Yarmuk — 24 years earlier
- c. 636–651 Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Arab conquest of Persia — 24 years earlier
- 661 Assassination of Ali — 1 year later
- 680 Battle of Karbala — 20 years later
Africa
- 652 The Baqt treaty with Nubia — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (aged 60)
- Pakal the Great (aged 57)
- Wu Zetian (aged 36)
- Xuanzang (aged 58)