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.

Chinese writing originated from this dynasty alongside objects made of bronze, stone, and jade. The Shang Dynasty was not known for the production of distilled liquor. Wine-making dates as far ...

There was minimal physical evidence of China’s Shang Dynasty until animal bones with precisely cracked messages were discovered. Dating back to at least 1600 B.C., the bones were used by trusted ...

dynasties were important ritual objects and symbols of power and were made with a high level of craftsmanship. According to the Japanese Sinologist Hayashi Minao, the essence of the animal faces and ...

The Shang Dynasty had seen the growth of China's first ... Our gui was not made as a single object, but as separate pieces cast in different moulds which were then joined together to make one ...

A Shang dynasty tripod cauldron ... Once limited to state and ritual functions, they became prized household objects. In 1975, a Korean fishing boat dredged up some curious ceramic objects ...

The majority of the objects on display wee unearthed in the Beijing area by archeological workers or donated to the museum by local citizens. The archeological treasures include a Shang Dynasty ...