Resting on a tiny white cushion in a royal-blue embroidered box - secure in its new home behind a locked door at UC Berkeley's East Asian Library - is an old piece of chipped bone, the size of a ...

Prior to the turn of the 20th century, oracle bones were regularly ground up for Chinese medicine. It wasn’t until Wang Yirong, a collector and director of the Chinese Imperial Academy, ...

What it tells us about the past: There is no one "oracle bone" — about 13,000 have been found — but these relics hint at the development of writing in ancient China.

Lots of oracle bones have been found in China which were created during the Shang Dynasty. Find out what they are in this Bitesize Primary KS2 history guide.

Since the first oracle bone inscriptions were discovered in 1899, research of these precious materials has not stopped. Found in the Yinxu Ruins in Anyang city, Central China's Henan province, the ...

A batch of high-definition images of more than 300 oracle bones and rubbings from the collection of China's Palace Museum was released. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency. These images were ...

Oracle bones were fashioned from buffed ox scapulae and tortoise shells, and engraved with questions for the ancestors. Rulers inquired about everything from crops to health to war.

“This is a great example of human-machine collaboration,” said Bofeng Mo, a professor from the Center for Oracle Bone Studies at Capital Normal University, who worked on the project with Zhirong Wu, a ...

An anonymous bidder paid the equivalent of $5.8 million at auction Sunday for a 3,000-year-old set of oracle bones, relics that Chinese rulers used to foretell the future, auctioneers said. The bon… ...

Of the estimated 5,000 symbols found on oracle bones, scholars have only been able to translate about 2,000, meaning there’s a lot of room for any brilliant code-breaking scholars out there.

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.