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They were waiting. Buried in sacrificial pits for over three millennia, their bronze eyes staring into eternal darkness, their gold masks pressed against the earth. While pharaohs ruled Egypt and Babylon flourished, an astonishing civilization thri
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The story of Chinese archaeology is often dominated by the grand narratives of the Yellow River, the Shang Dynasty, and the terracotta warriors of Xi'an. But in 1986, in the heart of the Sichuan Basin, the earth gave up a secret that would shatter ou
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The first time I saw photographs of those fragmented bronze masks—their angular jaws suspended in archaeological limbo, eyes bursting forward like twin moons—I felt the ground shift beneath my feet. This wasn't merely an excavation; it was a conversa
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The story of Sanxingdui is not one of a single, dramatic excavation, but a slow, perplexing unraveling—a century-long archaeological detective story that has fundamentally rewritten the early history of China. For decades, the Yellow River Valley was
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The ground cracked open not with a roar, but with a whisper—a farmer’s shovel striking something hard in Sichuan’s clay-rich soil in 1929. For decades, the truth lay dormant, a secret guarded by the earth itself. It wasn't until 1986, with the uneart
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