Echoes of a Lost Civilization.

An archaeologist examines an ivory item in a sacrificial pit at the Sanxingdui Ruins on March 19 Chinese archaeologists announced on March 20 that they had uncovered six new sacrificial pits and unearthed more than 500 items dating back about 3,000 years at the Sanxingdui Ruins, in Sichuan Province, southwest China. In 1986, archaeologists unearthed a large number of unique relics including a giant sacred bronze tree, from the No.1 and No.2 pits of the Sanxingdui Ruins. [Extracted from the article]