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 ...

Predicting the future was serious business during China’s Shang dynasty, when ‘oracle bones’ helped kings make big calls.

Dancing lessons, sick leave, wishing for relief from a toothache… Life for a Shang Dynasty prince more than 3,000 years ago ...

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

Yinxu, the capital of the Late Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), is China’s archaeological holy land. Since the identification of oracle bones near what is today the city of Anyang at the turn of the ...

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 ...