In the 19th century, villagers near Anyang unearthed oracle bones they thought were "dragon bones" and large numbers were ground-up for traditional medicine until they became valuable to antique ...

Oracle bones like this one are about 3500 years old. They proved the existence of the Shang dynasty. Most of the bones were discovered in the Shang city of Yinxu, near modern-day Anyang.

Context: Around 100,000 oracle bones are known, widely scattered in museums and collections around the world. Provenance: 1. Royal archive of oracular records, Late Shang Dynasty of Anyang (14th-12th ...

Demon Force Photo: Courtesy of Douban Amid the bustling Spring Festival holiday, a curious trend emerged in Central China's ...

Zhang Siping, 67, points to a photo in the Yinxu Ruins of Oracle Bones Unearthed History Museum ... of the Yinxu Ruins in Xiaotun village of Anyang, Henan province. Their story dates to 1928 ...

An aerial photo of excavated sacrificial pits at the royal mausoleum area of Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan province ... In jiaguwen, or oracle bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing ...

These are also called Yin ruins as the Shang Dynasty is also referred to after the fourteenth century B.C. Lying about two kilometers northwest of Anyang ... pieces of bone and tortoise shell ...

Situated in Henan's Anyang City, the 3,300-year-old Yin Ruins is the first documented late Shang Dynasty capital site in China, as confirmed by archaeological excavations and oracle bone inscriptions.