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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing ... testimony to the advanced level of Shang crafts industry. Inscriptions on oracle bones found in Yin Xu bear ...

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 ...

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 ...