Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them.

It takes people through Zhang's intense interest in ancient scripts and languages, first to those of ancient Greek and Latin and then to those appearing on the oracle bones, bronzes, stones and bricks ...

Nov 10 (Reuters) - A study combining linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence has traced the origins of the family of languages including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian and the ...

To understand Chinese culture, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning of its civilisation. In this series, we look at the most influential dynasties in Chinese history and how each, with its ...