2,000-Year-Old “Book of Songs” Discovered in China, First Complete Copy Ever Found

2,000-Year-Old “Book of Songs” Discovered in China, First Complete Copy Ever Found

Bamboo slips scroll from the Han Dynasty. Credit: Tbatb / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists in China have uncovered the country’s first known complete version of the Book of Songs (Shijing), one of the oldest and most revered works of Chinese poetry. The manuscript, written on bamboo slips and preserved for more than 2,000 years, was discovered in the tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in Nanchang, capital of east China’s Jiangxi Provin…