Behind the masks
June 14th 2007 Sanxingdui lies about 30km north-east of Chengdu and is the site of a museum chronicling extraordinary archaeological discoveries made there 20 years ago. Excavations revealed a settlement of the Ba-Shu culture, a Bronze Age people whose level of advancement challenged the conventional ideas of Chinese civilisation having arisen in the north of the country.
Apart from finely carved pottery and
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