"Ceramic Analysis" Result

The world gasped in 1986 when archaeologists at Sanxingdui, in China's Sichuan province, unearthed a cache of breathtaking bronze artifacts—mask-like faces with protruding eyes, towering trees of life, and figures that seemed to hail from another dim

The world gasped when Sanxingdui's bronze masks emerged from Sichuan's clay-rich soil—those otherworldly faces with dragonfly-eyed stares and gilded grandeur that rewrote Chinese archaeology. Yet while these metallic marvels dominated headlines, a qu