Relative location of the iron fragments within the pit. The three iron fragments unearthed from the pit. [Photo provided to ...

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This ‘Secrets of the Dead’ installment focuses on the 1986 discovery of a trove of buried artifacts with still-murky ...

Along the tranquil banks of the Yazi River, just 40 kilometers from bustling Chengdu, the earth concealed for more than three millennia the secret of a civilization that did not appear in the official ...

The archaeological site of Sanxingdui in southwest China’s Sichuan province has yielded remarkable discoveries, including insights recently revealed by Chinese researchers about how the inhabitants ...

In a study published in Archaeological Research in Asia, Dr. Haichao Li and a team of researchers analyzed the earliest Bronze Age meteoritic iron artifact from southwestern China, the largest found ...

Chinese scientists have confirmed that a peculiar iron object unearthed in the famous sacrificial area of Sanxingdui has an extraterrestrial origin. It is the first and oldest artifact made from ...

The fascination with Sanxingdui lies not just in its mysterious, otherworldly relics, mythical tales and thousands years of history. Thanks to its constant output of cultural creation, leveraging ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

A gold mask unearthed at the Sanxingdui site, in Guanghan, Sichuan province (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Sanxingdui in Guanghan, Sichuan province, discovered in the 1920s, has yielded a wealth of ...

Recent archaeological research on the ruins of Sanxingdui in southwestern China suggests an internal conflict spurred a population exodus and destruction of parts of the ancient city. Located in ...