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Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
Chinese culture is one of the oldest in the world. The first books were created on the bones of the Chinese animals such as paddle deer, turtle shell, bamboo sticks and wooden plates on which characters, which is then poured ink through a thin bamboo tube. To modern times not survived, none of these manuscripts in China. Contributed to this, inter alia, the activities of the emperor Shih huang-ti (Shi Huang Di, Chao Cheng), who in 213 BC ordered the burning of books in this way, wanting to thwart the activities of his opponents. However, this does not cause inhibition of China's cultural development. Trying to make up for the loss started with greater commitment to the literary work.
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
In 1845, discovered the ancient capital of the state of Assyria - Nineveh. Five years later, was discovered in the library of King Assurbanipal. Survived it, inter alia, 20 thousand. clay tablets with a characteristic letter. Cuneiform took the Babylonians after the conquest of Mesopotamia in the second century BC Used it its former inhabitants Sumerians.
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
Egyptian language belongs to the oldest languages of the "written" in the world. There are five main stages of its development: The ancient Egyptian language - inscriptions from the period of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2650-2135 BC) Middle Egyptian language - regarded as the characteristic form of the Egyptian language, as used in the period around 2135-1785 BC, up to the fourth century AD - In colloquial, spoken in the period 1550-700 BC, the documents used in private, rarely in the monumental inscriptions. Demotic language - used in about 700 BC to around 600 AD, was a dialect version of the language, it was written Demotic. Coptic language - started around the third century CE and used to this day, the only stage of development of the Egyptian language, which is known vowel structure of words in a language that is distinguished by the dialects .
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