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 ...

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.

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.

In the decades that followed, tens of thousands of these artefacts were unearthed. The study of these "oracle bones", as they came to be called, has thrown much light on the shadowy Shang dynasty ...

earning him the title "reviver of the Shang Dynasty". His many deeds were recorded on oracle bones and passed on to modern society, says Zhang. "We want to show the best stories of Wu Ding from ...

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 ... Inscriptions on oracle bones found in ...

There was minimal physical evidence of China’s Shang Dynasty until animal bones with ... including the ancient Chinese oracle bones found at the British Library. Watch the full documentary ...