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Oracle bones suggest 3,000-year-old typhoons hit ancient China

Inscriptions carved into animal bones more than 3,000 years ago by Shang dynasty diviners contain direct evidence of typhoon-driven disasters that struck deep into inland China, triggering floods, ...
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Scientists Deciphered 3,000-Year-Old ‘Oracle Bones’—and Found Evidence of an Ancient Disaster

One of the world's oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into 'oracle bones' by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...
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Inland China experienced typhoon-related population decline 3,000 years ago, according to 'oracle bones,' AI and physics

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...
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A vocation with character

It is also worth noting that the common global working language for oracle bone studies is traditional Chinese, which is the ...
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Tencent Deploys AI to Help Researchers Decipher Hidden Meanings in Oracle Bone Scripts

SHENZHEN, China, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent (00700.HK) today announced the launch of Oracle Bones Corpus (殷契文渊), an online research platform and database for oracle bone researchers and ...