Narrator: One of the most exciting objects or artefacts we have from the Shang Dynasty are oracle bones. They are animal bones covered in ancient writing and were used to try to predict the future.

Oracle bones predating the Shang Dynasty have also been found, and in 2003, some archaeologists said they'd found "Neolithic oracle bones" from up to 8,600 years ago. Early reports claimed that ...

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 ...

Human bones are frequently found in Shang Dynasty refuse pits and ditches. Oracle bone inscriptions also record such practices, and even some unearthed bronze vessels have been found to contain ...

Yinxu was the capital of the late Shang (Yin) Dynasty, which lasted from 1600 ... including inscriptions found on oracle bones. The urban road network at Yinxu features a grid composed of ...

The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing, is an ancient capital city of the late Shang Dynasty (1300 - 1046 BC). It testifies to the golden age of early ...

Hong Kong authorities announced in October that dinosaur bone fossils had been discovered on Port Island, a remote, uninhabited island off the northeastern part of the special administrative region.