Gold foil relic

A full day in Chengdu

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September 3rd 2014
Geo: 30.675, 104.072After breakfast we wandered around the historical area we are staying. Lovely old buildings with fancy rooftops really make you feel like you are back in old China. Then it was a metro ride to Jinsha Site Museum. This site was discovered in 2001 during real estate construction. They unearthed a major site containing 3000 year old objects from the Shu Kingdom.The museum is an ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more