Such a complex and sophisticated script certainly has a history but so far we found no traces of its predecessors. The oracle bone inscriptions received their name after their content which is ...

What it is: Tortoise shells or the shoulder blades of oxen that were inscribed with ancient ... oracle bones are the earliest existing form of Chinese writing. Many of the roughly 5,000 characters ...

The top six archaeological findings across China in 2024 were announced at Wednesday's annual archaeology forum hosted by the ...

In 2018, the Chinese government set up an expert committee on the research and application of oracle bone inscriptions and other ancient scripts to guide research in this field. Currently ...

Pu said Huang was very confident of his knowledge of ancient Chinese. "Out of the 1,000-odd oracle bone characters, Huang has mastered 700-800," he said. Niu Jing, Huang's class adviser ...

Liang Sun-chieh's translation blends Taiwanese Hokkien, Indigenous languages, Chinese dialects, Korean, Vietnamese Chu Nom, ...

The oracle bone below was discovered in China over 100 years ago ... They are animal bones covered in ancient writing and were used to try to predict the future. The King would call on a priest ...

For a long time before the 20th century, the Chinese used animal fossils as medicine, referring to such bones as long gu, or “dragon bones”. According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM ...