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.

The ancient city beneath Anyang was rediscovered in 1899, and the first round of excavations ended with Japan’s invasion of China in 1937. The work didn’t resume until 1950, so many of the ...

Ancient Chinese writing developed early in the second millennium B.C., while the earliest known writing system in the Americas is the Olmec script, from about 600 B.C.. But none of these early ...

The exhibitions include the "four great discoveries" of the early 20th century in ancient literary artifacts: jiaguwen, or oracle-bone inscriptions, the oldest-known Chinese writing system; the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A clay artifact, about the size of a finger, was discovered during an excavation at the ...

Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them.

Since its release in 2022, the documentary “Hidden Letters,” about an ancient Chinese writing system only used by women, has been nominated for an Emmy and shortlisted for an Academy Award ...

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.

Smithsonian’s ‘Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings’ is the first major U.S. show devoted to artifacts from the capital of the 3,000-year-old Shang Dynasty.