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 ...

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 ...