The site of the clan's tombs and houses is one of several archaeological sites dating to the Shang dynasty that have been found in Anyang.Image credit: Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The site of the clan's tombs and houses is one of several archaeological sites dating to the Shang dynasty that have been found in Anyang.Image credit: Anyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
As a study at Penn State University notes, the practice of the “ritual suicide” of servants, or “volunteering” to be buried alive at the funerals of their high-status masters was common in Shang dynasty China.
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I’ll keep my day job, thanks.
That, or they were doctors reporting about a viral outbreak they government didn’t want revealed.
