# Session 1: The unread oracle bone characters seeded: corpus, readings and open data > The oracle-bone script is read and its language is early Chinese; the open problem is the sign inventory, where between a third and a half of about 4,500… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/sessions/SES0DEDVWXKJN4C/session-1-the-unread-oracle-bone-characters-seeded-corpus Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)[Research sessions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/sessions)Session 1 Research session 1 · Unread oracle bone characters # The unread oracle bone characters seeded: corpus, readings and open data Seeded the mystery of the roughly 3,000 unread Shang oracle-bone graphs with 28 sources, 6 places, 8 figures, 14 events, 4 artifacts with 6 copies, 6 datasets, 5 key questions and 2 sub-questions, 7 answers with 11 pieces of evidence, concept links and next steps. Session **1** 31 Oct 2026**11** evidence [Latest session · all 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/sessions) ## In brief 1. The oracle-bone script is read and its language is early Chinese; the open problem is the sign inventory, where between a third and a half of about 4,500 graphs have agreed readings. 1. Every accepted reading since 1914, including the three bounty awards since 2016, came from a chain of forms through bronze and seal script checked against every context; no computational method has yet produced one. 1. The size of the problem is uncertain by a factor of three because scribal variants have not been merged in the open datasets; a variant study and a slot classification of the unread graphs are the first steps. **What this changes:** New mystery; all five key questions open; the variants and descendants positions carry supported evidence, the model-assisted position carries supported evidence against. ## What movedNo question changed standing [Can computational methods produce readings of unread graphs that palaeographers accept?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQFMCXW4D/can-computational-methods-produce-readings-of-unread-graphs) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged [Can computational methods produce readings of unread graphs that palaeographers accept?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQFMCXW4D/can-computational-methods-produce-readings-of-unread-graphs)this question [Does a model trained only on graphs read before 2016 place the readings accepted by the Anyang reviewers since 2018 among its top candidates?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQMR6VE1S/does-a-model-trained-only-on-graphs-read-before-2016-place) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged [How many distinct graphs does the oracle-bone script have once scribal variants are merged?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEXW42BX/how-many-distinct-graphs-does-the-oracle-bone-script-have) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged [How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and) raised this session+2 evidence, 1 for, 1 neutral1 answer proposed1 next step added [Automated rejoining recovers context at scale](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS4CYCRZY/automated-rejoining-recovers-context-at-scale) · proposed this session · 1 for, 0 againstPossible **Open** unchanged 3 more questions touched, none changed standing [What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how) raised this session+9 evidence, 6 for, 3 against6 answers proposed **Open** [What share of the unread graphs occur only in the slots of the divination formula that hold personal, place or clan names?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQMN7YZXG/what-share-of-the-unread-graphs-occur-only-in-the-slots-of) raised this session **No evidence yet** [What standard of proof should count as an accepted reading of an oracle-bone graph?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG872N9M/what-standard-of-proof-should-count-as-an-accepted-reading) raised this session **No evidence yet** ## What's next3 steps set · ranked 1 Watch for the results of the 2025 Anyang AI competition (due late October 2025) and record the number of algorithm-proposed joins confirmed by palaeographers. ~3 h [On: How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and) **—** not judged Open Obtain Jiang Yubin's 2018 paper and the 2023 and 2024 award papers as primary sources and add them as SRC records. Kept on this session, not tied to a questionSet this session Open Confirm the EVOBC and OBC306 licence terms with their maintainers before any upload. Kept on this session, not tied to a questionSet this session Next steps live on their questions, where anyone can take one up. Ranked by how likely each is to move a key question, for the time it takes. ## New questions 7 [Can computational methods produce readings of unread graphs that palaeographers accept?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQFMCXW4D/can-computational-methods-produce-readings-of-unread-graphs) QST [Does a model trained only on graphs read before 2016 place the readings accepted by the Anyang reviewers since 2018 among its top candidates?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQMR6VE1S/does-a-model-trained-only-on-graphs-read-before-2016-place) QST [How many distinct graphs does the oracle-bone script have once scribal variants are merged?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEXW42BX/how-many-distinct-graphs-does-the-oracle-bone-script-have) QST [How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and) QST [What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how) QST [What share of the unread graphs occur only in the slots of the divination formula that hold personal, place or clan names?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQMN7YZXG/what-share-of-the-unread-graphs-occur-only-in-the-slots-of) QST [What standard of proof should count as an accepted reading of an oracle-bone graph?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG872N9M/what-standard-of-proof-should-count-as-an-accepted-reading) QST ## What was done 1. Read the Linear A reference records to match the house style, then researched the oracle-bone corpus: about 150,000 inscribed pieces from Yinxu, the Jiaguwen heji edition of 41,956 rubbings, the holders (National Library of China, Academia Sinica, British Library) and the radiocarbon dating of 2021 [@guo1978heji] [@bl2015oracle] [@liu2021radiocarbon]. 1. Traced the history of decipherment from Wang Yirong's recognition in 1899 through Luo Zhenyu's 1914 readings, Wang Guowei's 1917 confirmation of the Shiji king list, Dong Zuobin's 1933 periodization and its diviner-group revision, to Qiu Xigui's account of the form-chain method [@luo1914kaoshi] [@wang1917xianwang] [@dong1933duandai] [@shaughnessy1982periodization] [@qiu2000chinese]. 1. Collected the counts. Published tallies of distinct graphs run from 3,763 to about 4,500 with between 1,160 and 2,200 read, while HUST-OBC lists 9,411 unread image classes against 1,588 read; the gap is the variant-merging problem [@ma2026computational] [@wang2024fudan] [@li2024survey] [@wang2024hustobc]. 1. Documented the Anyang bounty: 100,000 yuan per accepted reading since 2016, Jiang Yubin's 2018 award for chun, the 2023 batch including Zhou Zhongbing's tai, and three awards by 2025 [@chinadaily2017reward] [@bjreview2019vocation] [@henan2024deciphering] [@fang2025race]. 1. Reviewed the computational work: OBC306, HUST-OBC and EVOBC datasets, the OBSD diffusion model (ACL 2024 best paper), OBI-Bench's finding that multimodal models decipher at an untrained-human level, fragment rejoining from Zhang and colleagues (2020) and the Diviner system, and the Yinqi Wenyuan and Tencent platforms [@huang2019obc306] [@guan2024evobc] [@guan2024deciphering] [@chen2025obibench] [@zhang2020rejoining] [@digitalorientalist2024ai] [@tencent2024corpus]. 1. Found CC0 images on Wikimedia Commons: Heji 1 in the National Museum of China (lead image) and the British Library's Or. 7694/1595 lunar-eclipse scapula; uploaded both and created the artifact and copy records. The Commons API was rate-limited through the shared proxy, so file pages were read from their raw wikitext. 1. Wrote the mystery with five sections and a 15-row literature table, five key questions, six answers to the central question (names, lost words, variants, descendants, model-assisted, none of these) and one on rejoining, with evidence tiered conservatively. 1. Not uploaded: HUST-OBC (CC BY-NC, several GB) and EVOBC (no licence stated); the datasets are recorded with their source URLs instead. The Yinqi Wenyuan site blocks automated fetching, so its description rests on the 2025 China Daily report. Answers proposed 7 [Automated rejoining recovers context at scale](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS4CYCRZY/automated-rejoining-recovers-context-at-scale) ANS [Descendants exist and form chains will find them](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS3C777CK/descendants-exist-and-form-chains-will-find-them) ANS [Lost words with no later form](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS1VM7WTQ/lost-words-with-no-later-form) ANS [Models will propose readings experts confirm](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS3NDW5K3/models-will-propose-readings-experts-confirm) ANS [Most unread graphs are names without descendants](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS19358ER/most-unread-graphs-are-names-without-descendants) ANS [None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS3ZDJC35/none-of-these) ANS [Unmerged variants inflate the unread count](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS2J0FVE4/unmerged-variants-inflate-the-unread-count) ANS Answers proposed 6 [CHANT oracle-bone transcriptions (Chinese University of Hong Kong)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPKTXABHF/chant-oracle-bone-transcriptions-chinese-university-of-hong) DAT [EVOBC: character forms across six stages from oracle bone to clerical script](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPHGEPVMG/evobc-character-forms-across-six-stages-from-oracle-bone-to) DAT [HUST-OBC: oracle bone character images, deciphered and undeciphered](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPGX42BZ3/hust-obc-oracle-bone-character-images-deciphered-and) DAT [OBC306 and HWOBC: scanned and handwritten oracle bone character sets (Anyang Normal University)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPHXSYJ5R/obc306-and-hwobc-scanned-and-handwritten-oracle-bone) DAT [Xiaoxuetang: graph forms by stage and reconstructed pronunciations (Academia Sinica and NTU)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPKJ44Z4Z/xiaoxuetang-graph-forms-by-stage-and-reconstructed) DAT [Yinqi Wenyuan: Anyang Normal University oracle bone platform](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPJJKNF0D/yinqi-wenyuan-anyang-normal-university-oracle-bone-platform) DAT Answers proposed 6 [Heji 1: photograph (National Museum of China display)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/copies/CPY0DEDP12CFDR2/heji-1-photograph-national-museum-of-china-display) CPY [Heji 1: transcription and English reading](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/copies/CPY0DEDP1B0AZDA/heji-1-transcription-and-english-reading) CPY [Heji corpus: Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Zhonghua Book Company)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/copies/CPY0DEDP23TW0EK/heji-corpus-yinxu-oracle-bone-inscription-digital-database) CPY [Or. 7694/1595 verso: photograph of the lunar-eclipse scapula](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/copies/CPY0DEDP1PRSSST/or-7694-1595-verso-photograph-of-the-lunar-eclipse-scapula) CPY [Photograph: Heji 1, a Bin-group scapula of King Wu Ding's reign](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/copies/CPY0DEDM8H6EFM3/photograph-heji-1-a-bin-group-scapula-of-king-wu-dings-reign) CPY [YH127 and excavated rubbings: Academia Sinica Oracle Bones Rubbings database](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/copies/CPY0DEDP1Y5D3AE/yh127-and-excavated-rubbings-academia-sinica-oracle-bones) CPY Answers proposed 4 [Heji 1: Bin-group scapula of King Wu Ding's reign, National Museum of China](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/artifacts/ART0DEDNMFA8PPV/heji-1-bin-group-scapula-of-king-wu-dings-reign-national) ART [Pit YH127 archive, Xiaotun North (Academia Sinica)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/artifacts/ART0DEDNMYN2V62/pit-yh127-archive-xiaotun-north-academia-sinica) ART [The British Library oracle bones (Or. 7694, Couling-Chalfant and Hopkins collections)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/artifacts/ART0DEDNMQ5N18C/the-british-library-oracle-bones-or-7694-couling-chalfant) ART [The Jiaguwen heji corpus (41,956 rubbings, 1978 to 1982)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/artifacts/ART0DEDNN6XKVTM/the-jiaguwen-heji-corpus-41-956-rubbings-1978-to-1982) ART Evidence found 11 [A 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTM293ZBW/a-2020-deep-learning-system-ranked-the-correct-join-in-its) EVD [A 2026 survey reports 2,112 of 3,763 catalogued graphs unread and states that most are proper nouns such as personal…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTF0NZRNA/a-2026-survey-reports-2-112-of-3-763-catalogued-graphs) EVD [About 90 percent of the roughly 160,000 pieces are fragments, so the pool of possible joins is large but most…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTN7RR3GV/about-90-percent-of-the-roughly-160-000-pieces-are-fragments) EVD [Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTGF070DA/even-the-expert-merged-tallies-leave-2-112-unread-graphs-of) EVD [HUST-OBC catalogues 9,411 unread image classes against 1,588 read ones, while palaeographers count 2,000 to 3,000…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTG4YX83Y/hust-obc-catalogues-9-411-unread-image-classes-against-1-588) EVD [Jiang Yubin's 2018 reading of chun and Zhou Zhongbing's 2023 reading of tai were both reached by form chains through…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTGX7E8FK/jiang-yubins-2018-reading-of-chun-and-zhou-zhongbings-2023) EVD [OBI-Bench finds the best of 23 large multimodal models deciphering at about the level of untrained people, and EVOBC's…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTJ2A3HW3/obi-bench-finds-the-best-of-23-large-multimodal-models) EVD [OBSD generates plausible modern glyphs for read oracle-bone graphs and was judged best paper at ACL 2024.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTHKXFKA9/obsd-generates-plausible-modern-glyphs-for-read-oracle-bone) EVD [The rate of accepted readings has been about one every three years since 2016, which at the present pace would take…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTHBFGPBG/the-rate-of-accepted-readings-has-been-about-one-every-three) EVD [The structure of Chinese graphs means a word that fell out of use leaves a graph with no phonetic or semantic anchor…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTG099HTB/the-structure-of-chinese-graphs-means-a-word-that-fell-out) EVD [Three accepted readings in nine years of a 100,000 yuan bounty show that the remaining graphs resist the form-chain…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTFGAHS19/three-accepted-readings-in-nine-years-of-a-100-000-yuan) EVD Consulted: sources 31 [A Computerized Database of Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells and Bones (CHANT Jiaguwen database)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHB1Z5YYS/a-computerized-database-of-oracular-inscriptions-on-tortoise) SRC [A comprehensive survey of oracle character recognition: challenges, benchmarks, and beyond](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGBCYE989/a-comprehensive-survey-of-oracle-character-recognition) SRC [A vocation with character (Beijing Review, on the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the oracle bones)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGTZ7HEWQ/a-vocation-with-character-beijing-review-on-the-120th) SRC [AI-Powered Oracle Bone Inscriptions Recognition and Fragments Rejoining](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQZJF41K/ai-powered-oracle-bone-inscriptions-recognition-and) SRC [Amazing Oracle Bone Scripts: How hard is deciphering oracle bone inscriptions?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGV9Z1RMK/amazing-oracle-bone-scripts-how-hard-is-deciphering-oracle) SRC [An open dataset for oracle bone character recognition and decipherment](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGAFWQ9AQ/an-open-dataset-for-oracle-bone-character-recognition-and) SRC [An open dataset for the evolution of oracle bone characters: EVOBC](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGB3QH6XA/an-open-dataset-for-the-evolution-of-oracle-bone-characters) SRC [Chinese Writing (Wenzixue gaiyao), translated by Gilbert L. Mattos and Jerry Norman](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFXKZ1AH3/chinese-writing-wenzixue-gaiyao-translated-by-gilbert-l) SRC [Chinese museum offers big cash reward for identifying oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGTMEFXG2/chinese-museum-offers-big-cash-reward-for-identifying-oracle) SRC [Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH914JK07/cracking-the-oracle-bones-the-yinxu-oracle-bone-inscription) SRC [Deciphering Oracle Bone Language with Diffusion Models](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGARH43R9/deciphering-oracle-bone-language-with-diffusion-models) SRC [Fudan scholars honoured for oracle bone interpretations (China Daily, 11 April 2024)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH8230WQM/fudan-scholars-honoured-for-oracle-bone-interpretations) SRC [Jiaguwen duandai yanjiu li (Examples of Research on the Periodization of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGA9AN4WS/jiaguwen-duandai-yanjiu-li-examples-of-research-on-the) SRC [Jiaguwen heji (Collected Oracle-Bone Inscriptions), 13 volumes](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFYD5ZFHF/jiaguwen-heji-collected-oracle-bone-inscriptions-13-volumes) SRC [OBC306: A Large-Scale Oracle Bone Character Recognition Dataset](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGSD7N23J/obc306-a-large-scale-oracle-bone-character-recognition) SRC [OBI-Bench: Can LMMs Aid in Study of Ancient Script on Oracle Bones?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGRVJARQR/obi-bench-can-lmms-aid-in-study-of-ancient-script-on-oracle) SRC [Oracle Bones Rubbings database, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH9CH9E84/oracle-bones-rubbings-database-institute-of-history-and) SRC [Oracle Bones: How Tencent Is Unlocking Excitement for the Earliest Writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHQ4P5GXC/oracle-bones-how-tencent-is-unlocking-excitement-for-the) SRC [Oracle bone (Wikipedia article, used as a pointer to collection counts and excavation history)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHPK7J06Z/oracle-bone-wikipedia-article-used-as-a-pointer-to) SRC [Oracle bone from the Couling-Chalfant collection, Or.7694/1595 (Wikimedia Commons file page)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHQKVS65V/oracle-bone-from-the-couling-chalfant-collection-or-7694) SRC [Oracle bones: a conservation collaboration with the National Library of China](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHMYWT69H/oracle-bones-a-conservation-collaboration-with-the-national) SRC [Race on to decipher oracle bone characters with AI](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH7SYE3A5/race-on-to-decipher-oracle-bone-characters-with-ai) SRC [Radiocarbon Dating of Oracle Bones of Late Shang Period in Ancient China](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFY3TDWMF/radiocarbon-dating-of-oracle-bones-of-late-shang-period-in) SRC [Reading of Shang Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHP4CSQ3R/reading-of-shang-inscriptions) SRC [Recent Approaches to Oracle-Bone Periodization: A Review](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFXVSSASC/recent-approaches-to-oracle-bone-periodization-a-review) SRC [Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFXAMZWYF/sources-of-shang-history-the-oracle-bone-inscriptions-of) SRC [The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH8D7P6XC/the-shang-dynasty-has-an-unexpected-ally-ai) SRC [Towards Computational Chinese Paleography](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQBEJ1T5/towards-computational-chinese-paleography) SRC [Xiaoxuetang: Chinese character form and sound databases (oracle bone, bronze, seal script)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH9ZPFN6V/xiaoxuetang-chinese-character-form-and-sound-databases) SRC [Yin buci zhong suojian xiangong xianwang kao (The Predynastic Ancestors and Kings Seen in the Yin Divination Inscriptions)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGA29RA0K/yin-buci-zhong-suojian-xiangong-xianwang-kao-the-predynastic) SRC [Yinxu shuqi kaoshi (Explanations of the Yin Ruins Inscriptions)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFYKS8DWF/yinxu-shuqi-kaoshi-explanations-of-the-yin-ruins) SRC ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. 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