Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them.

With a history spanning nearly three millennia, oracle bone inscriptions, the earliest-known Chinese characters engraved on tortoise shells and animal bones, today have made their way into modern life ...

Chen Nan expounds on his designed oracle bone script via a computer at his studio in Tsinghua University in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 24, 2019. Boasting a history of more than 3,000 years, ...

To celebrate the 2024 UN Chinese Language Day, the opening ceremony of "The Spirits on Turtle Shells and Cattle Bones: Oracle Bone Script Art Exhibition" was held at the Iziko South African Museum in ...

China's social media communicators have traveled back in time to create their latest emoji incarnations. Two new sets of emojis draw their inspiration from the Chinese oracle bone script, which dates ...

CAPE TOWN, April 19 (Xinhua) -- "The Spirits on Turtle Shells and Cattle Bones: Oracle Bone Script Art Showcase" kicked off on Friday in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, to ...

Chen's studio has also developed a range of other cultural and creative products based on the oracle bone script, such as drawing templates, scarves, mobile phone cases and envelopes. And his design ...

Oracle bone inscriptions have drawn the world's attention since their discovery back in 1899. For years, archaeologists and researchers have been fascinated by and dedicated to the mystery behind the ...