In 1908, a scholar and philologist Luo Zhenyu discovered they were coming from the fields outside of Anyang and when he travelled there, he found thousands of them.

1908 年，学者兼文献学家罗振玉发现这些文字来自安阳郊外的田野，当他去那里旅行时，他发现了数千个骨头。