"From Bones to Bytes: Chinese Script Decoded" exhibition will run from tomorrow (October 25) until January 8, 2007, at the Hong Kong Museum of History. Featuring more than 70 exhibits in collaboration with text, photos, films and interactive programmes, the exhibition explores the origins, development and contribution of Chinese script. It also introduces the art of writing Chinese scripts and examines its role in the information age. The picture shows an oracle inscription of Wang Qi Bi in late Shang Dynasty between the Linxin and the Wuyi periods (c. 14th to 12th century B.C.). Oracle bone inscription recorded the results of divination by emperors in the Shang Dynasty. The number of words varied and they generally included four parts: narrative, the subject of the divination, the actual divination and confirmation.   Close