GLOBALink | What impresses expats about China s Sanxingdui Ruins?
Xinhua
05 Jun 2021, 02:05 GMT+10
CHENGDU, June 4 (Xinhua) More than 1,000 significant relics have been unearthed from new sacrificial pits at the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site in southwest China.
Revered as one of the greatest archeological finds of the 20th century, the Sanxingdui Ruins entered a new era of excavation work starting from the second half of last year, which mainly involves its No. 3 to No. 8 sacrificial pits.
Riveting relics including bronzewares, ivories, jade, gold foils and stone tools were uncovered during recent archaeological digs.
Notably, a unique bronze figure with a square altar-shaped bronzeware held up in its hands and an extremely rare bronze ware 115 cm in height were among the most head-turning discoveries.