ANYANG, Feb 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – A new building of the Yinxu Museum, in Anyang of central China’s Henan Province, officially opened to the public yesterday.
Located near the archaeological site of the Yin Ruins, which is the location of the last capital of the Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.-1046 B.C.), the expanded Yinxu Museum is the first national major archaeological museum, to comprehensively present the Shang civilisation.
The new building boasts an exhibition area of 22,000 square metres, where nearly 4,000 items or sets of cultural relics, including bronzeware, pottery, jade objects, and oracle bones, are on display.
The museum’s old building was constructed in 2005. As archaeological work at the Yin Ruins continued to yield results, the building’s mere 1,500-square-metre exhibition area became insufficient to effectively conserve and showcase the relics. This sparked the planning of the new building, and its construction began in Nov, 2020.
The Yin Ruins is the first documented late Shang Dynasty capital site in China, as confirmed by archaeological excavations and oracle bone inscriptions.– NNN-XINHUA
