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Oracle bones: 3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the futureThe surviving oracle bones are the earliest existing form of Chinese writing. Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of ...
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.
oracle bones, the inscribed animal bones and turtle shells used for fortunetelling and recording events. As the earliest-known established writing system for Chinese characters, Shang Dynasty ...
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.
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