Old oracle bones are telling a new story. By combining these 3,000-year-old inscriptions with modern climate models, scientists have found that powerful typhoons may have played a role in the fall of ...

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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 ...

Abrupt population drops over 3,000 years ago in the waning years of China's Shang dynasty were likely the result of a deadly increase in typhoons and related weather events, according to a new study ...