Guanghan: The Sanxingdui Museum is located in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, and features one of the world’s greatest archaeological findings of the 20th century. One afternoon in the early spring of 1929, a father and son living in a village nearby Guanghan accidentally discovered a true wonder of civilization, i.e., the Sanxingdui Ruins, when digging a ditch. The farmers had unearthed sacrificial pits containing treasures of the ancient Kingdom of Shu about 5,000 years ago, providing evidence of an ancient Chinese civilization as well as the source of the Yangtze River civilization.
The next huge surprise came in 1986 when two major sacrificial pits containing more than 1,700 cultural relics were found. Their discovery quickly gained worldwide academic attention.
In 2021, six new sacrificial pits were revealed at the Sanxingdui Ruins site, including nearly 13,000 cultural relics. UNESCO’s Assistant Director General for Culture Ernesto Ottone Ramírez hailed the new findings as “a milestone in archaeology, helping global society better understand Chinese civilization.”
The Sanxingdui ruins cover an area of 12 square km and have a history dating back 3,000 to 5,000 years. Translating to the Three-Star Piles, the remains demonstrate the existence of a civilization that had its own customs and rituals, as well as featured remarkable innovation.
The Sanxingdui Museum collects and displays a massive assortment of bronzeware, jadeware, goldware, pottery and so on.
–The Daily Mail-Beijing Review news exchange item
