"The archaeological excavations at An Yang Drought to light the life and literature of the people of Yin Jor Shang Dynasty, and pushed authenwritten history back at least 1,500 years B.C. These people were great believers in divination and have left behind them huge stores of oracle bones with" inscriptions. These inseribed "bones, and the stone and bronze implements and pottery. ass0- Jciated with them reveal the arts and Jerafts, the social customs, and religious beliefs of a pastoral people, who had taken up agriculture, who knew the art of brewing wine, and were engaged in trade with remote regions. Hunting as a form of ganized recreation' and. warfare seemed to occupy a large part of their {time and attention.
"The Tun Huang discovery was perhaps the richest single haul of Jancient, manuseripis and paintings lever achieved by anyone. Sir Aurel found. the walled-up stone chamber, nine feet square. and ten feet high, tied to the ceiling with 15,000 rolls (books) sewed up in 1130. cloth bundles, each containing" a dozen pieces. He was able to examine most fof them, and to select 3,000 rollo and 56,000 detached pieces. These have been carefully restored and studied, jand now are in the possession of the British Museum, "Among the finds is the oldest printed book known in history, bear-
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