To celebrate the 2024 UN Chinese Language Day, the opening ceremony of "The Spirits on Turtle Shells and Cattle Bones: Oracle Bone Script Art Exhibition" was held at the Iziko South African Museum in ...

In recent years, research into oracles bones, used to divine the future during China’s Shang dynasty, has fizzled out. The main reason is that researchers cannot decipher the characters cut into the ...

CAPE TOWN, April 19 (Xinhua) -- "The Spirits on Turtle Shells and Cattle Bones: Oracle Bone Script Art Showcase" kicked off on Friday in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, to ...

China's oracle bone scripts, an ancient type of Chinese characters inscribed on animal bones or turtle shells, have successfully entered the UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, according to the ...

Wuxi Museum hosted a practical activity to help primary students learn about the history of oracle bone script on Dec 9. [Photo/wxmuseum.com] Wuxi Museum hosted a practical activity to help primary ...

A competition to promote AI-assisted research and use of oracle bone script is announced during the 2025 China (Anyang) International Conference of Chinese Characters in Anyang, Henan province, on ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inspected the Yinxu Ruins, the last capital of the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC), in Anyang, Central China's ...

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.

In 1922, during his studies in the US, Li Ji, known as "the Father of Chinese Archaeology" in his later years, gave quite a strong opinion in terms of "the difference between alphabet and ...