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.

Discovered in 1899, inscribed oracle bones were first bought by antique dealers from Anyang and sold to Tianjin and Beijing. There, they were accidentally discovered and collected by late Qing ...

The Yin Ruins, located in Anyang City, Henan ... including inscriptions found on oracle bones. The urban road network at Yinxu features a grid composed of three main east-west roads and three ...

During an international academic seminar in 1989 commemorating the 90th anniversary of the discovery of jiaguwen (oracle bone inscriptions) from the Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan province ...