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Sanxingdui Excavation Projects: Modern Research Updates

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

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Sanxingdui Excavation: Faces, Masks, and Ancient Patterns

The ground beneath Sichuan Province had guarded its secrets for over three millennia. Then, in 1986, archaeologists unearthed something that would permanently alter our understanding of Chinese civilization—not inscribed bamboo slips or ritual bronze

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Sanxingdui Dating & Analysis: Pit Findings and Artifact Ages

The earth in Guanghan, Sichuan Province, gave up one of the twentieth century's most staggering archaeological secrets. For decades, the Sanxingdui ruins lay mostly dormant in the archaeological consciousness, known from initial discoveries in 1929 b

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Sanxingdui Timeline: Important Excavation Dates

The story of Sanxingdui is not one of a slow, steady revelation, but of seismic shocks that have periodically rocked the world of archaeology and rewritten the history of Chinese civilization. For decades, the cradle of Chinese culture was thought to

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Sanxingdui Excavation Timeline: Pit Finds and Artifacts

The story of Sanxingdui is not a simple narrative of discovery, but a slow, deliberate unraveling of a mystery that has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of ancient Chinese civilization. For decades, the cradle of Chinese history was thought t

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Chronological Timeline of Sanxingdui Excavation Achievements

The Silent Awakening (1929-1986) A Farmer's Chance Discovery In the spring of 1929, a farmer digging an irrigation ditch in Guanghan County, Sichuan Province, struck something hard and metallic. His shovel had unearthed more than just soil; it had

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Ongoing Research Projects on Sanxingdui Ruins

The earth beneath Sichuan Province continues to whisper secrets of a lost kingdom. Since the accidental discovery of jade and stone artifacts by a farmer in 1929, the Sanxingdui Ruins have stood as one of China's most profound and captivating archaeo

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Sanxingdui Bronze Masks: From Excavation to Cultural Insight

In the humid clay of Sichuan's Chengdu Plain, a civilization slept for three millennia, its secrets guarded by earth and time. The unearthing of Sanxingdui in 1986—and more recently in new sacrificial pits—wasn't merely an archaeological event; it wa

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Sanxingdui Excavation: Ancient Shu Faces and Ritual Artifacts

In the quiet countryside of Guanghan, Sichuan Province, a discovery emerged that would forever alter our understanding of Chinese civilization. The Sanxingdui archaeological site, dating back approximately 3,000-5,000 years, revealed a culture so art

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Sanxingdui Excavation Projects and Research Updates

One of the most iconic artifacts from Sanxingdui—a bronze mask with protruding eyes and gilded surface The Silent Revolution Beneath the Soil For decades, Chinese archaeology textbooks presented a relatively straightforward narrative: Chinese civil

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