Founding of the Shang Dynasty and Invention of Writing (Jiaguwen)
1600 BCE
King Tang founds the Shang Dynasty; creation of China's earliest logographic script on oracle bones.
Sources and References
Collection des os oraculaires (Musée National de Chine à Pékin / Musée d'Anyang)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗David N. Keightley, Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions (1978)
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