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National Museum of Chinese Writing, Anyang

National Museum of Chinese Writing, Anyang is a museum in the record of unread oracle bone characters, placed to about 100 m.

Three events on the site happened here, between 2016 and 2025: The National Museum of Chinese Writing offers 100,000 yuan per newly deciphered graph, and later Anyang launches an AI decipherment and rejoining competition with Tencent.

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ZiboQingdaoJinanZhengzhouZaozhuangTaianWeifang1National Museum of Chinese Writing200 kmXianZiboTaiyuanZhengzhou1200 km
Placed from Geotag of a CC0 Commons photograph taken inside the museum (File:Ancient_Chinese_Writing_on_Ox_Bone,_Shang_Dynasty.jpg). · Placed to about 100 m

In the mysteries

The unread oracle bone characters
3 events
The mystery

What happened here 3

Nearby within 500 km

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Mysteries Department. (2026). National Museum of Chinese Writing, Anyang [Place PLC0DEDJ42NMZ3X]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDJ42NMZ3X
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