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Anyang
[ ahn-yahng ]
noun
- a city in N Henan province, in E China: site of the ancient city of Yin, the center of the Shang dynasty, dated c1350鈥1027 b.c.
Anyang
/ 藞蓱藧苍藞箩蓱藧艐 /
noun
- a town in E China, in Henan province: archaeological site and capital of the Shang dynasty. Pop: 808聽000 (2005 est)
Example Sentences
In the 1980s, Anyang' Nyong'o, a political science professor at the time, was among a group of academics who organised against Moi's regime.
While 鈥淎nyang鈥 is installed in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, it鈥檚 linked to the museum鈥檚 sibling, the adjoining Freer Gallery of Art.
In 1929, leadership of the Anyang excavations passed to Li Chi, who was a Freer employee from 1925 to 1930.
When the first official excavations began at Anyang, China, in 1928, archaeologists unearthed the sort of stuff that can survive three millennia under dirt 鈥 bronze vessels, ceramic jars and jade ornaments.
More than 200 such artifacts are included in 鈥淎nyang: China鈥檚 Ancient City of Kings,鈥 the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to the capital of China鈥檚 3,000-year-old Shang dynasty.
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