The Bronze Age dynasty is also the first Chinese royal line backed by historical evidence. Among the finds were nine tombs of high-ranking nobility from the late Shang dynasty, the largest burial ...

Chinese archaeologists ... bone tools marked with animal patterns, gold earrings, copper arrowheads and axes, and lacquerware. It’s the first time that late Shang dynasty horse and chariot ...

The history of the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC) dating back to more than 3,000 years ago also encapsulates the glorious history of China's bronze ... with animal face patterns, whose majestic ...

Narrator: Over three and a half thousand years ago ancient China was ruled by a powerful family of kings. This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this ...

The earliest known form of Chinese writing is called “oracle bone script”. It developed during the Shang dynasty over 3,000 years ago. This script was carved onto turtle shells and animal ...

Oracle-bone inscriptions were excavated from Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China. They were records of making divination ... The divination involves all aspects of Shang dynasty, such as ...

The Yin Ruins is the first documented late Shang Dynasty capital site in China, as confirmed by archaeological excavations and oracle bone inscriptions. Follow China.org.cn on Twitter and Facebook ...

The Chinese call these dynasties, 'which means kingdoms made by one family. PRESENTER:'We've been talking about the Shang dynasty ... Some of them with beautiful patterns raised on the surface ...

SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA—Traces of a Bronze Age town covering ... and may have been captured by the rulers of the Shang Dynasty, who were based in what is now neighboring Henan province.

Archaeologists discovered 13,000 cultural relics during an excavation of the ancient site of Sanxingdui, near the city of Chengdu in China. The relics date from the Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.E.-1046 ...