Pit YH127 of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Oracle_bone" class="extiw" title="w:en:Oracle bone">oracle bones</a> (甲骨) at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Yinxu" class="extiw" title="w:en:Yinxu">Yinxu</a>, Anyang, China. The oracle bones are pieces of bone or turtle plastron bearing the answers to divination during the late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Shang_dynasty" class="extiw" title="w:en:Shang dynasty">Shang dynasty</a> (1250–1050 BC). They were heated and cracked, then typically inscribed using a bronze pin in what is known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Oracle_bone_script" class="extiw" title="w:en:Oracle bone script">Oracle Bone Script</a> (甲骨文), the earliest known corpus of ancient Chinese writing. The bones contain important historical information such as the complete royal genealogy of the Shang Dynasty.
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