Discover China ep43 - The Underground City
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Beneath Henan’s quiet fields lay a lost civilization. Then came etched bones and tortoise shells—fragments of an ancient script. From these relics, China’s Bronze Age oracle bones emerged, revealing ancestor worship, royal divinations, and the earliest known Chinese writing. A sleeping dynasty awoke.
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