Scholars used China’s “oracle bones” to help decipher the collapse of the Shang dynasty. Combined with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found an intense increase in typhoon activity helped shift ...

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.

One of the most remarkable Chinese archaeological finds is a 3000 year-old ‘oracle bone’ made of fragmented turtle shell, covered with inscriptions. This artifact relays the divination ceremony of ...