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Oracle bones: 3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the futureWhat it is: Tortoise shells or the shoulder blades of oxen that were inscribed with ancient Chinese characters ... hint at the development of writing in ancient China. They date from the late ...
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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 Sword of Goujian, named after a legendary Chinese king, emerged from a waterlogged tomb in China's Hubei Province ... an intricate variant of ancient Chinese writing. After months of analysis ...
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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