Oracle bone inscriptions (OBIs) are one of the oldest characters in the world and are the predecessors of today’s Chinese characters. These oracle characters recorded various human activities of the ...

Vitamin D is vital for healthy bones at all ages. It aids calcium absorption and bone mineralization. It also supports bone remodeling and muscle stre ...

Visual perception evolves over time. This is particularly the case of oracle bone scripts, where visual glyphs seem intuitive to people from distant past prove difficult to be understood in ...

Discoveries beyond doubt How bones, bronze and a Han historian rewrote our memory of the Shang era, a key period in the early development of Chinese civilization, Wang Ru reports.

Object Details Artist Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) Collection Freer Gallery of Art Collection Credit Line Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art Date ...

The women of Greece’s oldest civilization wove fabrics, carried weapons and wept over their lost children.