Shang Dynasty oracle bones with inscriptions of ancient Chinese characters Photo: VCG Editor's Note: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee ...

Narrator: One of the most exciting objects or artefacts we have from the Shang Dynasty are oracle bones. They are animal bones covered in ancient writing and were used to try to predict the future ...

Largest Shang building, inscribed oracle bone discovered in NW China Inscribed oracle bone also found at site By Sun Langchen Published: Dec 29, 2024 04:23 PM ...

The study of these “oracle bones”, as they came to be called, has thrown much light on the shadowy Shang dynasty, about which little was known apart from records written long after its demise.

A book written about Chinese history 3,000 years ago has become an unlikely bestseller. In Revelation, or Jian Shang in Mandarin, historian Li Shuo concluded, through the study of oracle bone ...