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, ...

Beijing, SANA-A university team in central China’s Henan Province has successfully completed the high-definition digitization of 542 oracle bone inscriptions housed in European institutions. The ...

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- As a series of events being held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions this month, the spotlight has been brought to the ...

Earn 15,000 U.S. dollars for one character! China is offering financial rewards to pool wisdom and help decipher the characters on 3,000-year-old oracle bones. Since the reward was printed in ...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered six new characters from oracle bone relics housed in a museum in Lushun, Liaoning province. Song Zhenhao, a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Social ...

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 ...