Perhaps no other ancient culture has contributed more to this advancement of human progress than the Chinese. Here are 10 of the greatest early Chinese inventions, in no particular order.

Ancient Egypt could determine the exact time of day using the sun’s position. China was the first civilization to develop paper. The invention of paper, which occurred in ancient China around ...

Paper has changed the way we communicate and share information in remarkable ways. It is believed that the invention of paper ...

Before the invention of paper, ancient Chinese recorded important texts on various materials such as tortoise shells, animal ...

Nor was China, the alleged terminus of the Silk Roads in most versions of its conception, ever the main destination of ...

In order to catch liars, the ancient Chinese would sometimes give the accused a mouthful of uncooked rice during interrogation—and then ask the person to open wide. Dry rice would indicate a dry mouth ...

Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central ...

New food inventions and innovations are made all the time, but the roots of your favorite sauces stretch back farther than ...

There was a lack of clear criteria in China’s patent practice for determining whether an AI invention constitutes a technical solution, given the abstract, complex, and unobservable nature of AI ...

The bamboo and wooden slips, known as jiandu in Chinese, were typically bound together with silk or hemp ropes. These slips covered a wide array of fields, such as history, archaeology, and ...

Ancient bamboo and wooden slips are slender, rectangular pieces on which ancient Chinese recorded information using brush and ink. Before the invention of paper, bamboo and wooden slips were the ...