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 ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter on the 120th anniversary of the discovery and subsequent research of oracle bone inscriptions. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party ...

Including an oracle bone bearing an inscription related to King Wen of Zhou, several new discoveries made at the Zhouyuan site in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have recently been revealed ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dong Zuobin was one of the leading ...

Old oracle bones are telling a new story. By combining these 3,000-year-old inscriptions with modern climate models, scientists have found that powerful typhoons may have played a role in the fall of ...