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Oracle bones: 3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the futureThere is no one "oracle bone" — about 13,000 have been found — but these relics hint at the development of writing in ancient China. They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to ...
IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...
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This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record"The 55.6-centimeter weapon bears eight characters written in Bird-worm seal script, an intricate variant of ancient Chinese writing. After months of analysis, experts concluded the inscription ...
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