Predicting the future was serious business during China’s Shang dynasty, when ‘oracle bones’ helped kings make big calls.

In 2025, the city plans to host 40 concerts, with the initiative of "friendly Nanning music season" throughout the year of ...

Oracle bone inscriptions can be divided into several periods according to their forms and contents, based on which we could reconstruct the real royal genealogy of Shang dynasty, and make research on ...

The piece of oracle bone inscribed with the characters Qin ren (the Qin people) Photo: Courtesy of Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a well ...

Oracle bones predating the Shang Dynasty have also been found, and in 2003, some archaeologists said they'd found "Neolithic oracle bones" from up to 8,600 years ago.

Yinxu, the capital of the Late Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), is China’s archaeological holy land. Since the identification of oracle bones near what is today the city of Anyang at the turn of the ...

Generally speaking, oracle bone inscriptions refer to characters recorded during the Shang Dynasty. Besides being carved on turtle shells and ox scapulae, characters were also cast on bronze ware or ...

Now, she is experienced in telling stories about Chinese characters, especially about oracle bone inscriptions. "Chinese characters were created by the ancestors of our nation, based on inspiration ...

Archaeologists in north-central China have found over 200 burial objects in nine tombs that are bringing new meaning to the Shang dynasty.

The region was once called Yin, serving as the capital of the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century-11th century BC) in its late stage.