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Xinhua: Cliff carvings may rewrite history of Chinese characters

May 18th, 2007 · 7 Comments

In 1988, a geologist working in Ningxia stumbled across a treasure trove of several thousand rock carvings spread over a 15 km area. The very earliest scrapings at the site, known as Damaidi (大麦地), are between 20,000 and 30,000 years old. The most recent carvings date from the Western Xia period (1032-1227 AD) with the [...]

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