However, Professor David Keightley, of the University of California, Berkeley, US, urged caution, particularly over the proposed link to the much later Shang script. "There is a gap of about 5,000 ...

The groundbreaking discoveries of inscribed oracle bones from the Yinxu Ruins, a late Shang capital in Anyang, Henan province ...

Chinese is among the oldest continuously used writing systems in the world. Its written history can be traced back to at least 1250 BCE during the Shang dynasty, though its spoken roots may go ...

Oracle-bone inscriptions were excavated from Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China. They were records of making divination and praying to gods by late Shang people from 1400 B.C.-1100 B.C..

As one of the major areas around the globe where agriculture originated, China has contributed to the world's domesticated rice, millet, buckwheat and soybeans.