Sanxingdui drew widespread attention in 1986 when advanced bronze, gold, and jade artifacts, in previously unseen styles, were discovered in the pits, indicating a high level of economic ...

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More than 4,000 artifacts, including pottery, jadeware and stoneware, have been unearthed. [Xinhua/Tang Wenhao] A jade dagger-axe is displayed at the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, southwest ...

The Sanxingdui site attracted global attention in 1986 when two pits, believed to have been used for ritualistic sacrifices, were excavated, together with a rich reserve of bronze and jade artifacts.

CHENGDU, CHINA—CNN reports that more than 3,000 additional artifacts estimated to be more than 3,000 years old have been recovered from six sacrificial pits at southwest China’s Sanxingdui ...

2024-07-23 15:42:42 CHENGDU, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Archaeological authorities have recently unveiled groundbreaking discoveries, including a jade and stone artifact "workshop" dating back over 3,400 ...

Chinese researchers have uncovered a jade dragon artifact inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. Archaeologists have uncovered over 100 jade artifacts in the ancient tomb belonging to a major Neolithic ...

Displaying such artifacts, the new museum houses a total of 1,500 relics, some of which were re-directed from the old Sanxingdui Museum, but almost a quarter number of them have never been shown ...

Discovered in the late 1920s in the city of Guanghan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Sanxingdui Ruins have been dubbed as one of the world's greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.