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Yinxu
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How it came to be
Yinxu lies on both banks of the Huan River north-west of Anyang in Henan, China. Around 1300 BC Pan Geng, the twentieth Shang king, moved the capital here from Yan. It remained the capital for 255 years, under 12 kings of 8 generations.
The palace and ancestral shrine area has yielded more than 80 rammed-earth foundations and many pits of inscribed oracle bones, the earliest known Chinese writing. The royal tomb area has sacrificial pits with chariots and human remains, and the tomb of Fu Hao, the only intact Shang royal tomb found so far, held bronzes and jades.
Forgotten for millennia, the site was rediscovered in 1899 by tracing oracle bones being sold nearby, which began decades of excavation. It was inscribed in 2006.
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