Hello, I'm Esme

I'm going to tell you about archaeology and how we know about how the Shang people lived.

Later on in life, after the Shang dynasty ended, the archaeologists dug up and found dirt-covered tombs (big rooms underground). They saw lots of pots. Strangely people were buried next to each other.

One skeleton looked young and the other was old. The archaeologists thought that this meant that old masters were buried with a young slave so that they had company in the afterlife. Worse still, the slaves could have been alive!

Archaeologists also realised that slaves and animals were sacrificed to the gods to please them.

I am so pleased that this does not happen anymore.