The C.V. Starr East Asian Library is a library at Columbia University, holding collections for the study of East Asia in the United States. It is one of the largest East Asian libraries in North Ameri
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Oracle bone
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Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period in ancient China. Scapulimancy is the specific term if ox s
A Shang dynasty oracle bone from the Shanghai Museum
Wang Yirong, Chinese politician and scholar, was the first to recognize the oracle bones as ancient writing.
Reconstruction of oracle bone pit YH127 at Yinxu
Ox scapula recording divinations by Zhēng 爭 during the reign of king Wu Ding