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.

Oracle bones inscribed with the earliest known Chinese characters that are unearthed from the Yinxu Ruins of Anyang and housed at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Fang ...

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- As a series of events being held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions this month, the spotlight has been brought to the ...

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 ...

Beijing, SANA-A university team in central China’s Henan Province has successfully completed the high-definition digitization of 542 oracle bone inscriptions housed in European institutions. The ...

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 ...

This exhibition explores the evolution of Chinese characters from ancient times to the present. Chinese script is one of the oldest written languages in the world and the only ancient language still ...

Bowl of "oracle bone script noodles" from Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province Photo: Courtesy of Fang Xinjie At the restaurant inside the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Central China's ...

Earn 15,000 U.S. dollars for one character! China is offering financial rewards to pool wisdom and help decipher the characters on 3,000-year-old oracle bones. Since the reward was printed in ...

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 ...