IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] According to Qi Wenxin, a Senior ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

Old oracle bones are telling a new story. By combining these 3,000-year-old inscriptions with modern climate models, scientists have found that powerful typhoons may have played a role in the fall of ...

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study. Some of those dates make me think of the Late Bronze Age collapse, I wonder if there is a connection to be explored ...

Abrupt population drops over 3,000 years ago in the waning years of China's Shang dynasty were likely the result of a deadly increase in typhoons and related weather events, according to a new study ...

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