There is a character with eyes wide open. It is an impressive character form found in oracle bone script, the earliest form ...

How much do you really know about Chinese characters? Beyond writing, do you know what else Chinese characters can be used for? There are thousands of answers to these questions. Chinese characters ...

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 ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...

During excavations at a 2,500-year-old archaeological site in Puyang, China, a set of 10 polished and painted bone slips or sticks were unearthed, all of which were inscribed with an ancient Chinese ...

Believe it or not, but the intriguing discovery of China's earliest writing was thanks to an unlikely ally—malaria. When the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, Wang Yirong, contracted malaria, he was ...

An oracle bone with script that is being analyzed by an AI agent. CHINA DAILY The world's first AI agent dedicated to researching oracle bone script has been launched in Anyang, Henan province — the ...