In our History Mantle of the Expert Drama we travelled to China in 1899 and met Professor Wang an eminent historian who was suffering from malaria. We saw how he visited a Chinese pharmacy, which was very different to our own pharmacies and chemists today. Professor Wang was prescribed 'Dragon Bones' to grind down and drink in hot water. We found out that these bones were actually Ox bones and turtle shells - not dragon bones...but when he looked carefully he found there was some thing truly amazing on the bones .... ancient Chinese writing ...
Professor Wang realised that these bones were from the area which stories told of a the first great Chinese Dynasty by the Yellow River near the modern city of Anyang. The professor commissioned a team to begin an excavation in the area. He contacted our team of British archaeologists from the Ashmolean Museum Oxford to help him. We travelled to China to help with the archaeological dig. The team discovered many ancient Shang Artifacts which proved the existence of the Shang Dynasty. We studied artifacts which has been found and used our archaeological skills to try to find out what these object were.
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