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, ...

Oracle bone script, which emerged in the late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.), is the earliest mature writing system in China. The source of Chinese characters and the foundation of China's excellent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

ZHENGZHOU, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- A university team in central China's Henan Province has successfully completed the high-definition digitization of 542 oracle bone inscriptions housed in European ...

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] According to Qi Wenxin, a Senior ...

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 ...