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Oracle bones shine again
Author : Source : Chinese Social Sciences Today 2017-11-30
Visitors observe inscribed oracle tortois shells at Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Central China’s Henan Province, on Nov. 25. Recently, Chinese oracle-bone inscriptions were included in the Memory of the World Register, a list of documentary heritage of the UNESCO. The script was discovered in 1899 when Qing scholar Wang Yirong found mysterious symbols on Chinese medicine called “dragon bones.” The symbols were later identified as ancient Chinese writing, making Chinese writing history 1,000 years longer than previously suggested.
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