Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to ...

Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of Chinese recognize tens of thousands of written characters) although some ...

Theoraclebonescriptcharacter“妆”iscomposedof“女”(n)and“爿”(pn).Itsoriginalmeaningwas“toadornordressup”,anditlatercametoreferto。

Before the invention of paper, ancient Chinese recorded important texts on various materials such as tortoise shells, animal ...

The oracle bone below was discovered in China over 100 years ago. At first, nobody knew what they were. Later, historians realised the words inscribed on them were questions and they were able to ...