Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of Chinese recognize tens of thousands of written characters) although some ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The oracle bone below was discovered in China over 100 years ago. At first, nobody knew what they were. Later ...

"Out of the 1,000-odd oracle bone characters, Huang has mastered ... Liu Zhao, a professor at the Department of Cultural Relics and Ancient Scripts, Shanghai Fudan University, praised Huang ...

The event drew local students and language enthusiasts with immersive activities, including Chinese tea tasting, calligraphy rubbing, shadow play performances, oracle bone script games ...

In Harry Potter: A History of Magic, author JK Rowling reveals the ancient artefacts that inspired the enchanting world of Harry Potter, including the ancient Chinese oracle bones found at the ...

A teacher guides participants in guessing the meaning of oracle bone scripts at the Confucius Institute at the University of Yaounde II in Soa, Cameroon, April 12, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] The ...