Chen Nan expounds on his designed oracle bone script via a computer at his studio in Tsinghua University in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 24, 2019. Boasting a history of more than 3,000 years, ...

China's social media communicators have traveled back in time to create their latest emoji incarnations. Two new sets of emojis draw their inspiration from the Chinese oracle bone script, which dates ...

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.

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 ...