"Bronze Age Rituals" Result

The earth cracked open in 1929, not with a roar, but with a whisper—a farmer’s shovel striking something hard and unfamiliar near the banks of the Yazi River in China's Sichuan Basin. This single, unassuming event was the first hint of one of the mos

The earth cracked open in 1986, not with a roar, but with a whisper of gold and jade. In a quiet corner of China's Sichuan province, farmers digging a clay pit stumbled upon what would become one of the most significant archaeological revelations of

They were waiting for us in the wet, dark earth of Sichuan, patient for three thousand years. When the first of the bronze faces was hauled into the light in 1986, the world of archaeology gasped. It was not the serene, humanistic face of a Shang dyn