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

It is these two nationalities waving the flag of two different language symbols that cover the largest and most extensive language users in the world. Therefore, the comparative study of English and ...

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

When mentioning the guibiao, Gao said it is a set of gnomon shadow measurement tools comprising a vertical bar called biao ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics, and Chinese characters built the written language ... Society of Overseas ...

de Rosny of Paris, in a work recently published on the Oriental nations known to the ancient Chinese, says that, among all the literatures of the East, that of the Chinese probably contains the ...

Another sample was even more ancient, dating back to 4.2 billion years. The research conducted by Prof. LI Qiuli’s lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of ...

Example of a cylinder seal (left) and its design imprinted onto clay (right). Credit: Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) Ancient cylinder seals in ...

Writing in The Economist earlier this ... students ride bicycles on a 30-mile nighttime adventure to an ancient city in central China’s Henan Province. Flocks of students went on chilly rides ...

where they revive the argument that ancient seals used to brand products shaped the formation of cuneiform. “The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history,” lead ...