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..

Tencent has launched its Oracle Bones Corpus, an online platform and database dedicated to the study of the ancient inscriptions, that uses AI tools to help researchers translate those writings by ...

While oracle bones were mainly used for divination purposes, Yang Yimin, an oracle bone researcher, told the Global Times that the writing system was already very mature, ...

For over a century, generations of scholars have pursued the ultimate dream of decoding the oracle bone script, China's earliest known writing system. Inscribed on ox scapulae or turtle shells ...

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.

Global Times: From worship to birth, oracle bones carry the secret of Chinese characters' origins PUBLISHED ON November 01, 2022 8:02 AM ANYANG, China , Nov. 1, 2022 ...