甲骨文首次是在殷墟(殷墟指商朝首都殷的遗址)发现的，所以，把这些古文字也称作殷墟文字。

• "The inscribed shells and bones were first unearthed in Yinxu (the ruins of Yin, the Shang Dynasty capital), so the writing is also called Yinxu writings."