Deciphering typically takes two dimensions into account: the precursor and its actual meaning in context. A specific oracle bone character could vary in strokes or carving style while retaining the ...
The earliest writing began to take shape in China way back in Neolithic times. The very first rudimentary symbols appeared on the earthenware of the Longshan Culture. These late Neolithic people are ...
Visitors explore the oracle bone exhibition at the National Museum of China. Photo: Li Hao/GT On the middle section of an ox's scapula bone can be seen 22 carved picturesque markings. The scapula, 14 ...
A press conference on the Chinese oracle bone inscriptions is held at the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 26, 2017. Chinese oracle bone inscriptions were included on the UNESCO Memory ...
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 ...