In recent years, research into oracles bones, used to divine the future during China’s Shang dynasty, has fizzled out. The main reason is that researchers cannot decipher the characters cut into the ...

Wuxi Museum hosted a practical activity to help primary students learn about the history of oracle bone script on Dec 9. [Photo/wxmuseum.com] Wuxi Museum hosted a practical activity to help primary ...

Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them.

Oracle bones inscribed with the earliest known Chinese characters that are unearthed from the Yinxu Ruins of Anyang and housed at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Fang ...

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- As a series of events being held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions this month, the spotlight has been brought to the ...

Beijing, SANA-A university team in central China’s Henan Province has successfully completed the high-definition digitization of 542 oracle bone inscriptions housed in European institutions. The ...

Bowl of "oracle bone script noodles" from Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province Photo: Courtesy of Fang Xinjie At the restaurant inside the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Central China's ...