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The Shang Dynasty was according to traditional sources.
They ruled in the north eastern regions of China. The Shang Dynasty ruled between 1766 BC and 1122 BC. We also can found direct information about the oracle bones – turtle shells, cattle scupulae or other bones in wich were written the significant corpus of recorded Chinese characters.

The inscriptions of oracle bones are divinations wich can be use for information on the politics, economy, culture, religion, geography, astronomy, calendar, art and medicine of the period.

One site of the site capitals, later historically called ruins of Yin, is near the modern day Ayang.
Yin royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains of human as well as of animal sacrifices. Ten of thousands of bronze, jade, stone, bone and ceramic artifacts have been obtained. In terms of inscribed oracle bones alone, more than 20,000 were discovered in the initial scientific excavations in the 1920s to 1930s, and over four times as many have since been found.