2026-08 Archive

Subtitle: Unearthing the Sacred Economy of the Shu Kingdom — One Artifact at a Time If you’ve been anywhere near Chinese archaeology news in the past three years, you’ve seen the headlines: “New Sanxingdui Pit Yields 13,000 Artifacts,” “Gold Mask Un

Unlocking the Bronze Masks, Golden Scepters, and Sacred Trees of Ancient Sichuan If you’re the kind of traveler who gets goosebumps standing in front of a 3,000-year-old artifact, who reads every museum placard twice, and who secretly wishes you cou

Subtitle: The Shock of 1986, the Whispers of 2021, and the Faces That Refuse to Look Away If you think you know ancient Chinese art—the elegant bronzes of the Shang dynasty, the jade discs of Liangzhu, the terracotta warriors of Qin—then Sanxingdui