Anyang is a prefecture-level city in Henan Province, People's Republic of China. It has 5,172,834 inhabitants at the 2010 census that 2,025,811 in the built up area made of 4 urban districts and Anyang County largely agglomerated with the city proper. For centuries, its secret past lay hidden beneath the city streets, but in 1899, hundreds of oracle bones, ornately carved tortoise shells and ox scapulas, were found, according to legend, by a doctor in search of "dragon bones" for an ill city administrator. Full scale excavations at Anyang began in 1928, and what has been revealed in the following decades is a major capital city of the Shang Dynasty (1554 B.C. to 1045 B.C.).