The exhibition, titled White Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perceptions of Oracle Bone Script, features a collection of 87 pieces or sets of contemporary artworks from 38 artists. Divided into ...

Museum Offers $15,000 Per Character to Decipher Oracle Bone Script The inscriptions offer detailed information about the Shang Dynasty, but researchers need help to read them ...

Boasting a history of more than 3,000 years, oracle bone script, the earliest Chinese writing inscriptions carved on tortoise shells and animal scapulas, has been given modern meanings with a new ...

The surviving oracle bones are the earliest existing form of Chinese writing. Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of ...

CAPE TOWN, April 19 (Xinhua) -- "The Spirits on Turtle Shells and Cattle Bones: Oracle Bone Script Art Showcase" kicked off on Friday in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, to ...

An exhibition themed on oracle bone scripts was unveiled at 798 Cube Art Museum in Beijing's 798 Art Zone on Friday, and plans to run through Oct 8.

Archaeologists say the "oracle bones" from ancient China were used in magical attempts to predict the future.