Oracle-bone inscriptions were excavated from Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China. They were records of making divination and praying to gods by late Shang people from 1400 B.C.-1100 B.C..

"Few Westerners are aware that Chinese characters were once used on oracle bones for divination," he said. "There's something magical about that." In 2016, when he was 20, his fascination led him to ...

Among the more than 4,500 oracle bone characters discovered, the meanings of over 3,000 remain a mystery. Scholars now hope ...

Oracle engineers mistakenly deleted critical storage during routine maintenance, causing a five-day software outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals. The incident forced ...

Where it was lacking was the folk magic and roots, stones and bones vibe to witch shops ... Sometimes, that includes divination. “There are about as many forms of divination out there as there are ...

Often made of fragments of ox bones and turtle shells, oracle bones were used to record details of divination ceremonies, serving as a way for priests and emperors to communicate with deities and ...

An Ancient Greek divination game from around 2,300 years ... was rolled five consecutive times in order to obtain an oracle. The gaming pieces were comprised of ankle or hock bones (hence the name of ...

shapes and divination cracks on the bones. "This significantly reduces storage and transmission costs, allowing terminals and devices to easily download compressed oracle bone models and quickly ...