In display after display, inscriptions proliferate on vessels, steles and architectural decorations, and we then walk downstairs and into the arts of the book.
The National Library of China (NLC) contributed manuscripts, maps, books, and rubbings of steles and oracle bones that span the range of Chinese history from ancient to modern times.
His recent dispute with the Louvre over Pharaonic steles thought to have been chipped from the walls of the 3, 200-year-old tomb of the cleric, Tetaki, resulted in ties being severed with the museum.