Oracle bone inscriptions

Name: Oracle bone inscriptions
Start: -1250
Location: Yin

c. 1250 BC · Yin · Asia · Culture

Questions to the ancestors — the oldest Chinese writing

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At the Shang capital of Yin under King Wu Ding, diviners carved questions to the ancestors on turtle shells and ox bones. These are the earliest known Chinese writing, the direct ancestor of modern characters.

State: Shang Dynasty

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