It is also worth noting that the common global working language for oracle bone studies is traditional Chinese, which is the ...

Oracle bone inscriptions represent the earliest known corpus of Chinese writing and remain a critical resource for understanding ancient language, culture and history. Recent advances in deep learning ...

In 1899, scholar Wang Yirong recognized carved markings on "dragon bones" as ancient Shang dynasty writing, transforming their use from medicine to historical evidence. These oracle bones revealed a ...

While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899. Yet the antiquarian who first perceived the value of the artifacts, etched with ...

In 1899, scholar Wang Yirong noticed ancient markings on so-called "dragon bones" being sold in a traditional Chinese ...

President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter on the 120th anniversary of the discovery and subsequent research of oracle bone inscriptions. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party ...

One of the world's oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into 'oracle bones' by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

Old oracle bones are telling a new story. By combining these 3,000-year-old inscriptions with modern climate models, scientists have found that powerful typhoons may have played a role in the fall of ...

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 ...