SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) β When the mysterious people of China’s Sanxingdui (San-Shing-Dway) packed up and moved 3,000 years ago, they left behind no written language, nor any indication of where they were going.
But they did leave behind a gigantic cache of the most intricately fabricated, larger-than-life bronze art works ever found in the ancient world. More than 100 of those pieces are coming to Southern California’s Bowers Museum in an exhibition that opens Sunday.
“China’s Lost Civilization: The Mystery of Sanxingdui” will remain on display until March 15, then move to Houston.
It offers a rare opportunity outside China to see works historians didn’t believe ancient people had the technology to create until these were uncovered in 1986.
They include a statue of a man 8 feet tall and several larger-than-life faces.
