Detecting ancient texts 4000 years ago

Yesterday, the Capital Museum of China showed over 400 valuable items first published. At the same time with the display of these artifacts, Chinese archaeologists have also announced the discovery of an ancient type of writing that appeared before the Armor of Literature for 800 years.

The piece of pottery with traces of ancient writing was first displayed at the museum.(Photo: THX)

The epic armor is considered to be the oldest form of Chinese characters born at the end of the Shang Dynasty (16th century - 11th century BC), about 3000 years ago today.Before the Armor Armor, people only found symbolic symbols of pre-characters.Therefore, the newly discovered type of writing is believed to be a form of transforming from figurative symbol system to the literal Giap script that was born in the end of Thuong Dynasty.

This writing system was discovered by archaeologists on an unearthed flat ceramic pot at the Temple of Pottery (Dao Tu), in Tuong Part district, Son Tay province, China in 1984.

Cao Vy, who discovered this artifact, found a flat ceramic vase that had broken many places in the excavation hole, he discovered on the surface of the vase a pink trace.Washing the soil layers, it is seen as a writing like the word " Van" in the Armor Armor.On the other side, there was a trace of another pink word but no one could guess what word it was.

After the study, the experts all said that although only a few words were discovered, it was confirmed that this was a quite complete writing system in front of the Armor Armor, about 4,000 years ago.

Ancient scripts appear on ceramic pots.(Photo: Bjd.com.cn)

As explained by archaeologists, the site of the Pottery Pagoda was excavated to study the culture of the Ha dynasty (the 20th century - the 16th century BC).However, during the excavation process, scientists discovered that the early and middle period of Pottery Temple was completely unlike the known characteristics of the Ha dynasty culture.Only the last period has a similarity to the period of Xia culture.

Pottery pots bearing the writing of ancient texts are artifacts found at the end of Pottery Temple.From there, it can be deduced, this writing system came into existence at least 700 - 800 years old.

Later, at many other sites, scientists also found such writing appeared on artifacts at the same time with the artifacts found at the Pottery Pagoda site.This proved, there was a relatively complete writing system before the Armor Armor.