SHENZHEN, China, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent (00700.HK) today announced the launch of Oracle Bones Corpus (殷契文渊), an online research platform and database for oracle bone ...

The piece of oracle bone inscribed with the characters Qin ren (the Qin people) Photo: Courtesy of Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a well ...

For over a century, generations of scholars have pursued the ultimate dream of decoding the oracle bone script, China's earliest known writing system. Inscribed on ox scapulae or turtle shells ...

Jiaguwen, or oracle-bone inscriptions, that were excavated from the Yinxu Ruins, were records of practicing divination and ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In a well, in a stone, in a library, we have some of the first human writing — someone recorded thoughts and ideas on bone 4,000 years ago, in the Shang Dynasty, and set them in fire to ...

Some oracle bone characters designed in geometrical patterns.[Photo provided to China Daily] China's social media communicators have traveled back in time to create their latest emoji incarnations.

Oracle bone inscriptions, which resemble the cuneiform writing of the ancient Near East and hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt, were discovered more than 100 years ago.