"Ritual Iconography" Result

The landscape of Chinese archaeology was forever altered in the summer of 1986. In a quiet, rural area of Guanghan, Sichuan Province, workers stumbled upon what would become one of the most astonishing archaeological discoveries of the 20th century:

The story of Chinese civilization, long narrated through the orderly lens of the Central Plains dynasties, was irrevocably altered in 1986. In a quiet corner of Sichuan province, near the city of Guanghan, archaeologists unearthed not just artifacts,

The year is 1986, and then again 2020. In a quiet corner of China's Sichuan province, archaeologists make finds so bizarre, so utterly alien to our understanding of ancient Chinese civilization, that they force a complete rewrite of history. This is