“Faces of Sanxingdui” Shed Light on Mysterious Ancient Kingdom“三星堆面孔”展現神秘古國風采

A golden face with patinaed turquoise eyes stares out of the darkness. Illuminated around it stand three other bronze heads—some have flat tops， others round—all looked over by a giant bronze statue almost 9 feet high1. All have the same piercing， angular eyes. There’s something about the “Faces of Sanxingdui”—as this collection of sculptures is being billed—that feels both familiar and alien. They were displayed at the Hong Kong Palace Museum from September 2023 to January 2024. They may appear Mayan or Aztec to the untrained eye， but these over-3，000-year-old sculptures weren’t unearthed anywhere near Mesoamerica’s ancient civilizations. They were discovered on China’s Chengdu Plain， at an archeological dig site called San-xingdui.

露出金面罩的銅銹綠色雙眼從黑暗中向外凝視。（剩余5606字）