"Ancient Civilizations" Result

The moment archaeologists' tools first struck bronze in the Sichuan basin, humanity's understanding of ancient civilization fractured and reassembled into something stranger and more magnificent. For decades, the Sanxingdui ruins have served not mere

They rise from the earth like visitors from another timeline: masks with gilded eyes and dragon-like ears, a tree of bronze stretching toward the heavens, a statue of a man so stylized he seems more deity than human. For decades, the story of China’s