Narrator: Over three and a half thousand years ago ancient China was ruled by a powerful family of kings. This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this ...

China's National Cultural Heritage Administration recently made public updates about four different archaeological sitesThey all offered insights into the Xia and Shang civilisations, two of the ...

There is no one "oracle bone" — about 13,000 have been found — but these relics hint at the development of writing in ancient China. They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to ...

The Shang Dynasty imperial cuisine was even better ... executive “making adjustments to the tripods”. Tripod in ancient Chinese refers to all sizes of cooking utensils.

(circa 1250 B.C. to circa 1050 B.C.), although the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty ruled most of northern China from about 1600 B.C. — the earliest traditional Chinese dynasty for which there is ...