Ivory cup inlaid with turquoise (1200 BC), China:
The handle of the cup is in the shape of a stylized dragon.
It was discovered in 1976 from one of the only intact royal tombs in China of Lady Fu Hao in Anyang City, Henan Province, and is one of the oldest excavation sites.
In China.
The Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāngcháo), formerly known as the Yin Dynasty (殷代; Yīndài), was the Chinese dynasty that ruled the lower and middle Yellow River Valley in the 2nd millennium BC as successor to the Xia dynasty, followed by the Zhou dynasty. Tales of the Shang Dynasty are mentioned in some historical texts and records such as the Book of Documents, the Bamboo Annals, and the Records of the Grand Historian. According to an ancestral chronology based on calculations by historian Liu Xin 2,000 years ago, the Shang Dynasty ruled China from 1766 to 1122 BC; But according to the chronology based on the current version of the Bamboo Annals, that dynasty ruled from 1556 to 1046 BC. While the Xia Shangzhou Dating Project concluded that the Shang Dynasty period extended from 1600 to 1046 BC based on radiocarbon dates of samples taken from the Erligang civilization site.
Yinxu was the capital of the Shang Dynasty and ivory was a luxury item there.
An elephant skeleton was found in Anyang. Since China's climate was much warmer 3,000 years ago, it is likely
Elephants lived in the north much longer than they do now.
(Cup height 30.5 cm, depth 10.5-11.3 cm)
Currently housed in the National Museum, Beijing
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