Ancient bone fragment with Chinese oracle bone script writing

King Wu Ding

Shang dynasty ruler (c. 1200 BCE)

Around the time King Wu Ding lived, writing was invented for the first time in China and people started to keep records of special events.

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Ancient stone tablet with inscribed characters, mounted on a display stand.

Oracle Bones and early writing in the Shang dynasty

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