While "ancient Chinese porcelain vessels were previously found in Israel," the researchers said, "this is the first to bear ...

One of them has been around for centuries: writing riddles on the sides of lanterns ... According to Pak, the Chinese have been celebrating the yearly autumn harvest since the Shang dynasty ...

The China National Academy of Painting holds the fifth exhibition of a series focusing on ancient characters. [Photo provided ...

The surviving oracle bones are the earliest existing form of Chinese writing. Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of ...

There is no one "oracle bone" — about 13,000 have been found — but these relics hint at the development of writing in ancient China. They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to ...