Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25－220) successfully invented the world's first batch of paper using fish nets, tree bark, bits of rope and rags. [xinhuanet.com] It is known to all that ...

Archeologists have discovered ancient paper relics of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) at eight sites -- such as Xinjiang, Gansu and Shaanxi -- scattered along the Silk Road.

More than 1900 years ago, Cai Lun （蔡伦）, a Chinese eunuch in the imperial court of the Han dynasty, invented a process for making paper using tree bark and silk.

Among the four great inventions, paper was invented quite early as we already had it in the Han dynasty. However the compass and gunpowder were adopted later, during the Song dynasty. The reason why ...