These are also called Yin ruins as the Shang Dynasty is also referred to after the fourteenth century B.C. Lying about two kilometers northwest of Anyang, the ruins spread to both banks of the ...

Yinxu was the capital of the late Shang (Yin) Dynasty, which lasted from 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE. The Yin Ruins, located in Anyang City, Henan, are the first documented capital site of the late ...

Situated in Henan's Anyang City, the 3,300-year-old Yin Ruins is the first documented late Shang Dynasty capital site in China, as confirmed by archaeological excavations and oracle bone inscriptions.