On the 20th anniversary of Yinxu's UNESCO World Heritage inscription, China Daily and the Anyang municipal government jointly launched the Roots of Oracle Bone Civilization IP on July 13 in Anyang, ...

More than 3,000 years ago, this was the heart of the Shang Dynasty(c.16th to 11th century BC). A great capital stood here, ...

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 ...

Oracle bones. Bronze. Jade. Ancient cities. In the Yinxu Ruins, every artifact traces the roots of Chinese civilization. Step ...

It is also worth noting that the common global working language for oracle bone studies is traditional Chinese, which is the ...

SHENZHEN, China, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent (00700.HK) today announced the launch of Oracle Bones Corpus (殷契文渊), an online research platform and database for oracle bone researchers and ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

Ancient artifacts offer some of the earliest insight we have into events such as lunar eclipses of the distant past, but for the most part, only experts have access to them. Thanks to 3D printing, ...