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.

The bones were used for fortunetelling, as well as recording and composing the earliest-known formal writing system in ... oracle bones spanning the late Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th ...

According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

These inscriptions mentioned the Shang dynasty's emperors and mostly documented official divinations carried out on behalf of royal families. Imperial China introduced the hanzi writing system to ...

However, among all of these writing systems ... traced back to simple engravings made on oracle bones during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC). Even though the shapes of many characters have ...

PRESENTER:'We've been talking about the Shang dynasty, 'and the Shang kings ... on his computer system. MR LIU:This time, this place, the sky. PRESENTER:'The people everywhere 'said that heaven ...