"Sacrificial pits ritual destruction" Result

The Discovery That Shook the Archaeological World In 1929, a farmer in Guanghan, Sichuan Province, accidentally unearthed a cache of jade artifacts while repairing a sewage ditch. Little did he know that this humble discovery would lead to one of th

The sudden, dramatic appearance of the Sanxingdui artifacts in 1986 was an earthquake in the world of archaeology. From the sacrificial pits of a forgotten kingdom in China's Sichuan Basin emerged not the familiar, serene bronze vessels of the Centra