"Ritual Archaeology" Result

In the quiet countryside of China's Sichuan Basin, a discovery in 1986 shattered long-held narratives about the cradle of Chinese civilization. Farmers digging an irrigation ditch near the town of Sanxingdui unearthed not simple pottery, but somethin

The world of archaeology rarely delivers a true, jaw-dropping shock. Much of its progress is incremental, a patient piecing together of known fragments. But every few decades, a discovery emerges so utterly alien, so magnificently bizarre, that it fo

The Chinese archaeological world, and indeed the global community fascinated by ancient mysteries, has been holding its collective breath. In the quiet countryside of Guanghan, Sichuan Province, the earth has once again yielded its secrets. The Sanxi

The earth of Sichuan’s Guanghan city has been whispering secrets for millennia. For decades, the world’s understanding of ancient Chinese civilization was largely shaped by the historical records of the Yellow River Valley—the dynasties of Shang and