There Chinese writing traditional stands out for its style vertical writingin columns from top to bottom. This practice, ...

Beijing’s preferred form of ethnic minority culture is a sanitized simulacrum featuring plays, theme parks, and other ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Ancient 4400 B.C. Stone Cylinder Seals Reveal Clues to the World’s First Writing System Researchers at the University of ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...

Cylinder seals were used there starting in the mid-fourth millennium BC as part of an accounting system to track the production, storage and transport of various consumer goods, p ...

missiles and sensors as Chinese forces step up their passages through the area between the first and second island chains. Washington has also stepped up its commitments to the region by ...

It marks the first time that China has emphasized the educational functions of standardized Chinese character writing and language learning in schools, a ministry official said. A key goal is to ...

11Alive is dedicated to answering your questions. Here are answers to some of your most frequently asked questions regarding early voting in Georgia. Yes, counties across Georgia offer early ...

NOVI, Mich. — Republican nominee Donald Trump criticized expanded voting options at a rally here marking the start of early voting for all counties in this critical battleground state.

Voters who didn’t provide identification with their registration must show a New York ID when voting for the first time. Acceptable forms of identification for those voters are a current and ...

More than 30 million early votes have been cast so far in the general election, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. Nearly 15 million of those ballots were cast in person ...