BEIJING (AP) — Chen Yulu never thought her home province of Hunan had any culture that she would be proud of, much less become an ambassador of. But these days, the 23-year-old is a self-proclaimed ...

Starting in the the 1950s, archaeologists conducting excavations in central Asia have discovered several dozen inscriptions in a mysterious script. The writing system was coined “ecriture inconnue” in ...

At a studio in central China's Hunan province, a teacher grips an ink brush, gently writing characters of a secret script created by women centuries ago and now being embraced by a new generation.

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...

A writing system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was ...

You don’t have to buy a lottery ticket to win a million dollars thanks to an offer from southern India's Tamil Nadu state, but there is a catch: you need to be able to decipher 5,300-year-old writing.

Nushu, meaning "women's script", emerged around 400 years ago - Copyright AFP Jade GAO Nushu, meaning "women's script", emerged around 400 years ago - Copyright AFP ...