Its shape is typical of many small figurines already made at Sanxingdui, but it is the largest.
A giant bronze mythical beast found at a famous Chinese archaeological site in the city of Sanxingdui in China. The Good News Network writes about it.
This area is one of the richest and most impressive archaeological sites in China. There was found a huge statue of a mythical animal made of bronze.
“Hundreds of bronze statues have been found at the site at Sanxingdui, or the Mound of the Three Stars, which some archaeologists have described as more impressive than the Terracotta Army, and this latest find adds to a collection of aspects of size and grandeur. A 150 kg bronze beast was found on Wednesday. Its shape is typical of many smaller figurines that have been made at Sanxingdui, but it is the largest. Since the first excavations at Sanxingdui in 1986, the mythical beasts discovered were smaller, only about 20-30 centimeters long.” said a member of the group investigating sacrificial pit No. 8, Zhao Hao.
Recall that earlier in Mexico, archaeologists discovered a layer of tools, equipment and otherworldly figures in an ancient ceramic layer more than three thousand years old. The artifacts remained untouched beneath the forest surface, although hundreds of thousands of people walked past the fragments of ceramic vessels and human figures every day,
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