A new digital archive is making thousands of mysterious ancient Chinese emblematic symbols accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yuwei Zhou, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian ...

A competition to promote AI-assisted research and use of oracle bone script is announced during the 2025 China (Anyang) International Conference of Chinese Characters in Anyang, Henan province, on ...

The streets of Hong Kong used to hum after dark. Not just with the chatter of night markets or the clatter of mahjong tiles, but with something electrifying: a constant, low buzz from thousands of ...

By exercising restraint and emphasizing atmosphere and visual storytelling, the short introduces a grounded war chapter in an ...

The idea was that a king was the entity that unified these three elements.However, this is a misconception. The earliest form of this character clearly resembles an axe. It symbolizes the weapon ...

Oracle bones inscribed with the earliest known Chinese characters that are unearthed from the Yinxu Ruins of Anyang and housed at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Fang ...

Believe it or not, but the intriguing discovery of China's earliest writing was thanks to an unlikely ally—malaria. When the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, Wang Yirong, contracted malaria, he was ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know at the time. The same goes for other incredible archaeological discoveries that ...