What it is: Tortoise shells or the shoulder blades of oxen that were inscribed with ancient Chinese characters Where it is from: China When it was made: 3,250 years ago Related: The 3,300-year-old ...

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The data for the Database of Selected Characters from Guodian 郭店 and Mawangdui 馬王堆 Manuscripts were prepared in the course of research for the project "Towards a Methodology for the Study of Ancient ...

including a comprehensive holographic Chinese character database, a digital resource of the ancient Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, and repositories for ancient inscriptions and handwritten texts.

Under the ancient city walls of Tianxin Pavilion in Changsha, Hunan province, 26-year-old Ghanaian student Ako Nai Emmanuella Daniella bent down to touch weathered bricks engraved with Chinese ...