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.

China's social media communicators have traveled back in time to create their latest emoji incarnations. Two new sets of emojis draw their inspiration from the Chinese oracle bone script, which dates ...

Traditionally, deciphering a single oracle bone character requires rigorous research based on intensive reading, according to Liu Yongge, director of the Laboratory of Oracle Bone Inscriptions ...

20 pieces of oracle-bone scripts, or Jia Gu Wen in Chinese, will be auctioned in Shanghai this July. The scripts were excavated over one hundred years ago, and they date back about 3,000 years. They ...

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 ...

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 researchers and ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inspected the Yinxu Ruins, the last capital of the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC), in Anyang, Central China's ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dong Zuobin was one of the leading ...

Chen's studio has also developed a range of other cultural and creative products based on the oracle bone script, such as drawing templates, scarves, mobile phone cases and envelopes. And his design ...