Oracle bones, these curious messages conjured from a spiritual fire, are a voice of the dead echoing through the evolution of language and its power. Shang dynasty oracle bone, ...

Resting on a tiny white cushion in a royal-blue embroidered box - secure in its new home behind a locked door at UC Berkeley's East Asian Library - is an old piece of chipped bone, the size of a ...

Chinese oracle bone inscriptions Photo: VCG. Zhang Jixia Photo: Courtesy of Zhang Jixia. In 1922, during his studies in the US, Li Ji, known as "the Father of Chinese Archaeology" in his later ...

Around 160,000 oracle bones have been found so far, but of the 4,300 characters inscribed on them, only 1,600 have been decoded, according to a report from the Xinhua News Agency.

Perhaps the most well-preserved oracle bones come from China, most of which date back to the Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BCE). About 20,000 pieces (mostly ox scapulae and turtle plastrons) ...

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 ...

An anonymous bidder paid the equivalent of $5.8 million at auction Sunday for a 3,000-year-old set of oracle bones, relics that Chinese rulers used to foretell the future, auctioneers said. The ...

An oracle bone description National Museum of Chinese Writing In recent years, research into oracles bones, used to divine the future during China’s Shang dynasty, has fizzled out.

The earliest-known example of Chinese writing -- written more than 3,000 years ago on the bones of an ox -- has become the world's first Chinese oracle bone to be scanned and printed in 3D.

Researchers from the Cambridge University Library this week announced the creation of what they think is the world's first 3D printed replica of a 3,000-year-old Chinese oracle bone.