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New Evidence Ancient Chinese Explorers Landed in America Excites ...
After consulting with experts on Native American rock writing and ancient Chinese scripts to corroborate his analysis, he has concluded that the readable message preserved by these petroglyphs was likely inscribed by a group of Chinese explorers thousands of years ago.
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wikipedia.org
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Oracle bone - Wikipedia
Oracle bone ... Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – c. 1050 BCE) in ancient China. Scapulimancy is the specific term if ox scapulae were used for the divination, plastromancy if turtle plastrons were used.
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Chinese Oracle Script Cards Guidebook - benebell wen
The script inscribed in each sector of the oracle bone offers a divinatory revelation. There will be nine messages in total and you are reenacting that process by drawing nine cards into the nine sectors.
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Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions - Memory of the World - UNESCO
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..
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How the ancient Chinese used 'oracle bones' to tell the future
Ancient Chinese oracle bones reveal how the Shang dynasty used divination to seek guidance. Learn how these inscribed bones shaped early Chinese writing and beliefs.
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Dr. K.Y. Chen's Laboratory - Oracle Bone Inscription
Oracle-bone writing 甲骨文 (1600 to 1100 BC): The oracle-bone inscriptions are the earliest body of writing we yet possess for East Asia. They were written in a script (Shang-dynasty script) that was ancestral to all subsequent forms of Chinese writing.
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Oracle Bone Script - New World Encyclopedia
Oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén; literally "shell bone writing") refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters found on animal bones or turtle shells used in divination in ancient China.
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Oracle Bone, Shang Dynasty – Smarthistory
The term “oracle bone” refers to ox scapulae (or shoulder blade bones) and tortoiseshells used by Shang rulers for divination. Oracle bones were said to offer a conduit to the spirits of royal ancestors, legendary figures from the past, nature deities, and other powerful spirits.
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Exploring Chinese History :: Culture :: Archaeology :: Oracle Bones
The technique known as the phonetic loan, where a written character borrows an additional meaning from another word that sounded much the same in the spoken language, was also discovered to have been used in the Oracle Bone script.
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Oracle Bones: Earliest Writing in Ancient China
Known today as oracle bones, these relics carry the earliest surviving form of Chinese writing and the first recorded attempts to communicate with the unseen world. They are not only artifacts of ritual but also precious texts that reveal the dawn of written history in East Asia.