On the Trail of a Mysterious Culture
Oct 22, 2020
3 minutes
By Li Qing
Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar
Guo Hanzhong, an expert restorer of cultural relics, traces his interest in his work to Sanxingdui, an archaeological site in southwest China that was a treasure trove of Bronze Age culture artifacts.
The site in Guanghan, Sichuan Province, was accidentally discovered in 1929 by a local farmer while digging a ditch, when he unearthed a piece of bright jade. An official archaeological excavation started decades later and in 1986, archaeologists uncovered two pits whose treasures changed the historical belief that the central plains of the Yellow
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