Since 1986, eight excavated pits at Sanxingdui have yielded giant masks of gods with bulbous, insect-like eyes and protruding ears, mythical creatures with gaping mouths and an almost 4-meter-tall ...

Newly excavated artifacts from Sanxingdui include (clockwise from top) a fantastical bronze depiction of a hybrid creature with a pig’s nose and a dragon’s body; a one-foot-tall bronze ...

Archaeologists found a mythical beast with four wings during the most recent excavation of the Sanxingdui Ruins in ... Qilin-style feathers (Qilin is a creature from Chinese mythology) made ...

The exhibits will be on loan from the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan and ... One of them, a statue of a mythical four-legged creature with rabbit-like ears and a thick tail, could have been used ...

Ever since the first relics from the 4,000-year-old Shu civilization were discovered at Sichuan’s Sanxingdui site almost a century ago, rumors have swirled that they belonged to aliens.

A gigantic bronze mask, a statue of a mythical creature, a dragon-shaped object ... among mostly new discoveries at the Sanxingdui archaeological site in the city of Guanghan in Sichuan province.