What it is: Tortoise shells or the shoulder blades of oxen that were inscribed with ancient Chinese characters Where it is from: China When it was made: 3,250 years ago Related: The 3,300-year-old ...

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.

The piece of oracle bone inscribed with the characters Qin ren ... Excavations suggest its walls date back to the transition from the Shang to the Zhou dynasties (c.1600BC-771BC) and were ...

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