"Sanxingdui Masks" Result

The first time I saw a photograph of the Sanxingdui bronze mask, I thought it was a prop from a science fiction film. The exaggerated, triangular eyes, the protruding pupils, the broad, unsmiling mouth, and the eerie, almost alien symmetry of the fac

The soil of the Sichuan Basin has always been generous, but never more so than in the late 1980s, when farmers digging a drainage ditch near the town of Guanghan accidentally struck something that would rewrite the history of Chinese civilization. Wh

In the summer of 2021, the world looked on in stunned fascination as archaeologists in China’s Sichuan province pulled artifact after artifact from the sacrificial pits of Sanxingdui. Among the most arresting finds were the bronze masks—massive, angu

The year was 1986, and in a quiet corner of China's Sichuan Basin, archaeologists made a discovery that would send shockwaves through the academic world. Two sacrificial pits yielded treasures not of gold or jade, but of bronze—bronze of such stagger