Yinxu

Yinxu (Chinese殷墟, Pinyin Yinxu, Ruins of Yin ') are the remains of the capital of Yin of the later Shang dynasty, on both banks of the River Huan He ( Chinese洹 河), in the municipality Xijiao (西郊 乡) of the Borough of Yindu (殷 都 区) of the prefecture-level city of Anyang, were found in the northwest of Henan province, People's Republic of China. The most important localities in the villages were Xijiao Xiaotun (小屯) and Huayuanzhuang (花园 庄). The ruins date from the 14th to 11th century BC, Yin was determined by Pan Geng to the capital and remained so until the end of the Shang dynasty. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century oracle bones were discovered here, but a systematic official investigation did not begin until 1928.

The site is since 1961 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 1-142 ).

New Discoveries

In the oracle bones Yinxu more than 4500 individual characters have been identified, of which more than 1700 were deciphered. These glyphs are precursors of modern Chinese writing. From the research of oracle bones, a new discipline developed.

In 1976, archaeologists discovered 100 meters north of the village in Anyang Xiaotun ungeplünderte the grave of Fu Hao ( wife of Shang King Wu Ding ). There were a total of 1928 objects - including 468 bronze vessels and 755 objects of jade - as well as nearly 7,000 cowries.

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