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10:29, 20-Dec-2021
First mention of the Middle Kingdom
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No wonder archaeologists were excited when they first identified the characters on ancient Chinese vessel zun. At last they had found the answer to a historical mystery buried for thousands of years: the earliest mention of Zhongguo, literally "the Middle Kingdom," or China!
