In 1922, during his studies in the US, Li Ji, known as "the Father of Chinese Archaeology" in his later years, gave quite a strong opinion in terms of "the difference between alphabet and ...

Photo taken on Dec 1, 2017 shows the Chinese oracle bone script collections at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinese researchers have developed a numeral-based coding system ...

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, the ...

Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inspected the Yinxu Ruins, the last capital of the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC), in Anyang, Central China's ...