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Lost kingdom of Sun found
Updated: 2007-07-23 09:39
The construction site in the western suburbs of Chengdu, in Sichuan
Province, looked much like any other. It all started when a bulldozer
driver heard a scraping sound as his machine bit deep into the ground: he
struck a collection of golden, jade and bronze objects. Workers and
passersby snapped up the treasures and scurrying off. Those too late to
get anything, disgruntled, report the find to the police. And that's how,
in February 2001, the world learned about the relics of a mysterious
3,000-year-old Jinsha kingdom in the mountains of southwest China.
"Jinsha culture is unique, quite different from cultures in other parts
of China, but is scarcely mentioned by Chinese historians," said Zhu
Zhangyi, a veteran archaeologist in Sichuan and deputy-curator of the
Jinsha Museum. "The harsh geography made it difficult for outsiders to
enter the kingdom and so it was able to preserve its endemic culture."
Police have been able to recover most of the relics purloined from the
construction site -- about 100 items in all, but no one can confidently
claim that they have recovered everything.
In the past six years, the site has yielded up about 6,000 gold, jade,
bronze and stone artifacts, tens of thousands of pottery items and also
hundreds of elephant tusks.
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