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The story of Sanxingdui is not a linear narrative, but a series of seismic shocks to our understanding of ancient China. For decades, the Yellow River valley, cradle of the Shang Dynasty, was considered the sole, sophisticated heart of Chinese civili
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The story of Sanxingdui begins not in a university lecture hall or a planned archaeological survey, but with a humble farmer’s hoe. In the spring of 1929, a man named Yan Daocheng, digging an irrigation ditch in a field in China’s Sichuan Basin, stru
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The story of Chinese archaeology is often told through the familiar narratives of the Yellow River, of oracle bones and majestic Shang dynasty bronzes. Then, in 1986, the earth cracked open in a quiet corner of Sichuan province, and a civilization so
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The mist-shrouded plains of Sichuan have long captivated travelers with their emerald terraces and fiery cuisine, but beneath the surface of this vibrant province lies a secret that has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of Chinese civilization
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The cracked earth of Sichuan's Chengdu Plain gives little hint of the cosmological chaos brewing beneath. Then—a glint of bronze, a curve of jade, the vacant stare of a mask that has not seen the sun for over three millennia. This is Sanxingdui. Unli
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