It was clear this ancient city was incredibly old by the initial excavations in April which suggested the site dated between the late Neolithic period and the Shang dynasty. After a three month ...

Yinxu was the capital of the late Shang (Yin) Dynasty, which lasted from 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE. The Yin Ruins, located in Anyang City, Henan, are the first documented capital site of the late ...

In 1889 a Chinese man using decayed ancient tortoise shells in his malaria medicine noticed that the shells were covered with scrolls of mysterious inscriptions The oracle bones as the shells were ...

They are one of our main sources of information about the Shang Dynasty, who ruled part of China ... gives us a tour of one of the first known cities: Uruk in what became modern-day Iraq.

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, the ruins spread to both banks of the ...

The stone-built structures newly found at the Panlongcheng Site in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, mark the first large-scale Xia-Shang period stone-built architectural remains discovered in ...

They proved the existence of the Shang dynasty. Most of the bones were discovered in the Shang city of Yinxu, near modern-day Anyang. Narrator: One of the most exciting objects or artefacts we ...

(photo credit: The Archaeology Institute of Jinan City) In a discovery that could ... The bronze vessel, dates back to the late Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1046 BC), known for its contributions ...

Discovered in the Daxinzhuang Ruins in Jinan City, the capital of Shandong in east China, the vessel dated back to the the late Shang Dynasty—a period of Chinese history which spanned from roughly ...