The year was 2018. With its turquoise scales and golden eyes, hundreds of pieces scattered everywhere, a broken dragon slowly arose from the soil in Henan Province. The fantastical creature dated back over 3,000 years, all the way to the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.).
Archaeologist and scholar with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Tang Jigen took fragments of the discovery to a hospital in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, because he wanted to do a CT scan of the dragon in a bid to uncover its secrets.
But in the face of antiquity, modern technology stood in vain. The turquoise
