Before paper was invented, the ancient Chinese carved characters on pottery, animal bones and stones, cast them on bronzes, or wrote them on bamboo or wooden strips and silk fabric. These ...

It is believed that the invention of paper started in ancient China, where people experimented with creating paper-like ...

Many are surprised to realize that modern agriculture, shipping, astronomical observatories, decimal mathematics, paper money, umbrellas ... of Joseph Needham and his colleagues in a study of ancient ...

Ironically, what these ancient chemists stumbled upon was an invention that could ... created the prototype for modern paper. Before Cai's breakthrough, the Chinese wrote on thin strips of bamboo ...

In fact, it’s the ingredients for paper – as it was made in ancient China, that is. At the time of its invention, life was hard if you had something you needed to remember. Legend has it that ...

But thanks to Chinese scholar Shen Kuo's writings, we know what Bi invented. Up to that time in China, paper was printed using large woodblocks, with ink applied to the raised carved surface of ...

Can you imagine a world without toothpaste, fridges, reading glasses and toilet paper ... ancient Greeks and Romans contained crushed bones, egg shells and myrrh while those in ancient China ...