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Sanxingdui Museum

Sanxingdui, or "Three star mound", located near the city Guanghan, 40 kilometers (about 24.9 miles) north of Chengdu, in Sichuan province, is an ancient Chinese city where archaeologists discovered numerous remarkable artifacts that radiocarbon dated circa 12th-11th centuries BC. The Sanxingdui Culture was a mysterious civilization in Shang dynasty. The unique and wonderful Sanxingdui culture civilization tells us that the source of Chinese civilization is pluralistic. There was not only the Yellow River civilization, but also the Yangtze River civilization in China.

In order to well preserve and display the cultural relics, the Sanxingdui Museum laid the foundation in 1992 and opened in October 1997. The museum is divided into four sections, displayed more than 1000 pieces of cultural relics from Sanxingdui Relic and the two sacrificial pits of Shang Period, including gold plate, bronze ware, jade articles, pottery and ivory. Each of the four sections has its own theme. You can visit the museum to see many sophisticated bronzes as old as ancient Mycenae.