"Sanxingdui Ritual Objects" Result

The story of ancient China has long been told through the lens of the Central Plains, the Yellow River cradling the dynasties of Shang and Zhou. But in 1986, in the humid Sichuan Basin, a discovery so radical and alien shattered that singular narrati

The Chinese archaeological world has been repeatedly set ablaze not by fire, but by the cool, mesmerizing gleam of gold and jade. No site embodies this phenomenon more than the Sanxingdui ruins in Sichuan province, a civilization so bizarre and techn

The earth of Sichuan's Chengdu Plain yielded a secret in 1986 that forever altered the narrative of Chinese civilization. The Sanxingdui ruins, dating back to the mysterious Shu kingdom of the 12th-11th centuries BCE, presented not just artifacts, bu