The surviving oracle bones are the earliest existing form of Chinese writing. Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of ...

This means that nearly 62 percent of the characters in oracle bone inscriptions remain to be deciphered. In 2018, the Chinese government set up an expert committee on the research and application ...

Although the Zhou may have disagreed with the Shang on many aspects of state governance, they shared one thing in common: ...

[Photo by Wang Ru/chinadaily.com.cn] Anyang in Henan province is actively building jiaguwen, or oracle bone inscriptions ...