Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

Although soft brushes had been the major writing and drawing tools throughout Chinese history, hard tools were the earliest " pens" of ancient Chinese, Li said. On the pottery of the Neolithic age ...

The charm of ancient Chinese writing not only captivates domestic researchers but also fascinates overseas scholars, including Kunio Hirose from Osaka in Japan. Born in 1975 and now a professor at ...

This work paves the way for researchers to decipher them and shed light on everything from the daily concerns of people in ancient times to how Chinese writing first developed. “This is a great ...

The ancient city beneath Anyang was rediscovered ... They also found something less tangible: the beginnings of the Chinese writing system, in the form of the inscriptions on the animal scapula ...

Many of us take what were once luxuries for granted – clean water from our taps, a warm bed or a hot meal, for example. So it may not cross our minds what a luxury commodity paper was only a few ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story ... Today: New analysis of an ancient Chinese text revealed the earliest candidate aurora yet found, predating the next oldest by ...

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Dutou found two abandoned wells with thousands of bamboo slips or 1,700-year-old record books, photos show. Photo from the Institute of Archaeology at the ...

Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous philosophies that are still studied today. The civilization is also known for building the Great Wall of China.