Some 2,000 of the 5,000-plus ancient Chinese characters inscribed on tortoise shells and animal bones have been deciphered by Chinese scholars. ... China has published a "jiaguwen" dictionary, ...

Some 2,000 of the 5,000-plus ancient Chinese characters inscribed on tortoise shells and animal bones have been deciphered by Chinese scholars. The characters, called “jiaguwen” in Chinese ...

The preservation, display and documentation of the history of Chinese characters can now be assured with the National Museum of Chinese Written Language in Anyang, central Henan Province, opening ...

H undreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted ...

Chinese teenagers learn about oracle-bone inscriptions at Wang Yirong Museum, Fushan district, Yantai, East China's Shandong province on July 9. [Photo by Feng Weizhu/VCG] ...

To the two Chinese tomb robbers who found it beneath a pile of rotting planks in 1934, the ragged piece of silk bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more ...

An ancient cave with centuries of Chinese characters written on the walls reveals the history of severe droughts.. By tying the cave graffiti to ratios of chemical elements in the stalagmites ...

Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted in ...