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 ...

TheoraclebonescriptformoftheChinesecharacter“星”（xng）iscomposedoftwocirclesrepresentingstarsandthecomponent“生”（shng）。

Generally speaking, oracle bone inscriptions refer to characters recorded during the Shang Dynasty. Besides being carved on turtle shells and ox scapulae, characters were also cast on bronze ware or ...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered two oracle bones, including one inscribed with the most number of characters ever in a single find, in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The team of ...

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.

Jiaguwen, or oracle-bone inscriptions, that were excavated from the Yinxu Ruins, were records of practicing divination and praying to gods by the late Shang people.

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 ...