Shu (state)

thumb|Sanxingdui bronze heads with gold foil masks Sanxingdui () is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the 12th–11th centuries BC. The archaeological site is the type site for the Sanxingdui culture that produced these artifacts, archeologists have identified the locale with the ancient kingdom of Shu, which suggests the presence of a unique civilization in this region before the state of Qin conquered t

ancient Sichuanese kingdom

archaeological site in Sichuan

ancient Sichuanese artifact

a style of embroidery folk art native to Sichuan and Chongqing