Antiquity: in the Chinese barrow of Sanxingdui found gold masks and jewelry

In the territory of an archaeological monument of Sanxingdui ("Kurgan Three Stars") found a set of ancient artifacts. Article about it is published in Antiquity. Sanxingdui is in the territory of the district Guanghan Province of Sichuan. It was constructed by representatives of culture of a bronze age, and found a barrow in 1928 when the farmer found a big hiding place with jade relics, digging an irrigational ditch. In the 1980th years there found the sacrificial holes 1 and 2 containing many valuable subjects. During recent research archeologists found 6 new holes with a squared area from 3,5 to 20 sq.m...