Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out ...

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 ...

One of the most remarkable Chinese archaeological finds is a 3000 year-old ‘oracle bone’ made of fragmented turtle shell, covered with inscriptions. This artifact relays the divination ceremony of ...

Her great-great-grandfather, Wang Yirong, was the scholar and calligrapher who first recognized oracle bones for what they are. Four thousand years ago, in the city of Yin, the last capital of the ...

Chinese archaeologists working on the Loess Plateau in north-central China have uncovered a vast site of rammed earth buildings, cemeteries, and bronze casting workshops dating back around 3,200 years ...