The exhibition “Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan” will be launched at the HKPM during the National Day holidays and last about four months.

It will showcase 120 pieces of precious bronze, jade, gold, and pottery dated to 2,600–3,300 years ago. Nearly half of the relics to be displayed at the exhibition were unearthed in the most recent excavations at the Sanxingdui archaeological site between 2020 and 2022, and most of them will be presented for the first time outside Sichuan.

The excavations at Sanxingdui form one of the key initiatives of “Archaeological China”, which was launched by the National Cultural Heritage Administration.

The discoveries shed new light on the highly developed Bronze Age civilization in the upper Yangtze River region and exchanges between ancient Sichuan and its surrounding areas, revealing the origin and early development of Chinese culture and its “diversity in unity” developmental pattern.