Nearly a millennium after his death, the legacy of Su Shi, China's beloved writer, statesman and gastronome, continues to ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

The Latin alphabet is the most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back to the eras of ancient Greek ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

The history of romanized Vietnamese, or Quoc Ngu, links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

Choose from Ancient Chinese stock illustrations from iStock. Find high-quality royalty-free vector images that you won't find anywhere else. Video Back Videos home Signature collection Essentials ...

This innovative writing method played a pivotal role in recording and preserving information, aiding the development of ancient ... of alphabets. Egyptian hieroglyphs from the tomb of Seti I. Credit: ...

Chinese characters are the system of symbols used to write Chinese. Unlike an alphabet, which represents ... its present form by looking at the more ancient form. For example (ancient to modern ...

for example—these did not make use of an alphabet. Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing system, was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient region centered on ...

Schwartz discovered the finger-sized cylinder, along with three others bearing similar etchings, in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient ... an alphabet rather than another type of writing ...