MICHAEL WOOD:'That they used dragon bones to look into the future. MICHAEL WOOD:'And that they got toothache just like us.' Michael Wood explains how we know about the Shang dynasty. Oracle bones ...

These are also called Yin ruins as the Shang Dynasty is also referred to after ... with beautiful stylized dragon and legendary animal patterns inscribed on its four sides, is a rare bronze ...

They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to circa 1050 ... villagers near Anyang unearthed oracle bones they thought were "dragon bones" and large numbers were ground-up for ...

For a long time before the 20th century, the Chinese used animal fossils as medicine, referring to such bones as long gu, or “dragon bones”. According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM ...

A pattern of xuanwu, a Chinese mythical creature depicted as a snake and a tortoise on an eaves tile from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). The symbolic turquoise inlaid bronze plaques unearthed from ...