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Chinese inscriptions

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Orkhon inscriptions

Göktürk inscriptions dating to the 8th century

pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron used for pyromancy in ancient China

Chinese bronze inscriptions

writing in a variety of Chinese scripts in inscriptions on Chinese ritual bronzes (e.g. zhōng bells, dǐng tripodal cauldrons) from the Shang dynasty to the Zhou dynasty and later

Seven-Branched Sword

Galle Trilingual Stele

stone tablet erected in 1411 in Galle, Sri Lanka

King of Na gold seal

Chinese gold seal found in Japan

Xiping Stone Classics

stone carved books of the Confucian classics (175-183)

Inscription on the Ceremonial Mounding of Mount Yanran

Han dynasty inscription on a cliff in the Yanran Mountains (89 AD)

Neolithic symbols in China

marks inscribed on Chinese Neolithic pottery

Ding Jinhao engraving scandal

Buddhist pillars engraved with dharani sutras