2025-12 Archive

The story of Chinese archaeology is often one of gradual revelation, of connecting dots across a vast historical canvas. But sometimes, the earth delivers not a dot, but a supernova. This is precisely what happened in 1986, and again in recent years,
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The unearthing of the Sanxingdui ruins in China’s Sichuan Province stands as one of the most electrifying archaeological discoveries of the modern era. Since the first major pit was accidentally found by a farmer in 1929, and especially after the stu
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The Sichuan Basin, long shrouded in the mists of time and legend, held a secret for over three millennia. In 1986, in a quiet village named Sanxingdui, farmers stumbled upon not just artifacts, but an entire lost civilization. The subsequent excavati
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The story of ancient China has long been told through the lens of the Central Plains, the Yellow River Valley, and the dynastic cycles chronicled in silk and ink. For centuries, this narrative was coherent, linear, and centered on what we recognize a
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The story of Chinese civilization has long been told through the lens of the Central Plains, the Yellow River Valley, and the dynastic cycles chronicled in ancient texts. For centuries, this narrative was considered the singular, dominant cradle of E
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The story of human civilization is often told as a tale of rivers—the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Indus, the Yellow River. We imagine ancient cultures blossoming in isolation along these fertile banks, developing their unique characters befor
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The archaeological world holds its breath every time a new pit is opened at Sanxingdui. Located in China's Sichuan Basin, far from the traditional heartlands of the Yellow River civilizations, this site is a relentless challenger of historical narrat
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The world watched in awe as archaeologists in China’s Sichuan province carefully lifted a massive bronze mask from the earth. This wasn't just any artifact; it was a relic from the Sanxingdui civilization, a culture so enigmatic that its discovery in
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The earth in Guanghan, Sichuan Province, yielded a secret in 1986 that forever altered the narrative of Chinese civilization. The Sanxingdui ruins, a sprawling metropolis of the ancient Shu Kingdom dating back 3,000 to 5,000 years, presented not the
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The recent archaeological breakthroughs at Sanxingdui have sent shockwaves through the global history community, catapulting this once-obscure site in China's Sichuan province to international fame. With the opening of the new, state-of-the-art museu
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