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.

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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] All Chinese calligraphy in the ...

With more than 3,000 years of history, the oracle bone inscription is the earliest mature writing system ever discovered in China. By examining it through microscopes or exploring it in ancient books, ...

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, the ...