This 3,000-year-old Chinese civilization had alien masks!

In 1986 a startling discovery was made in Sichuan Province, southwest China: two sacrificial pits filled with strange bronze masks, a divine tree meant to connect Heaven and Earth, and a life-sized statue of an enigmatic shaman king. They belonged to a hitherto unknown civilization over 3,000 years old: Sanxingdui.

Its discovery rocked the archaeological world. How was it possible for such an advanced civilization to flourish in a relatively isolated corner of China? Why did they create such wonderful, alien works of art? How did they learn to create bronzeware more advanced than that of ancient Egypt? And most importantly, who were they?

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