Inscrutable Sanxingdui

VISITORS to the San- xingdui Museum in Chengdu, capital city of southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, are seldom content with just one trip. The that ended in antiquity. The Yellow River across northern China and the Yangtze that traverses the south are considered the cradles of the Chinese civilization. The Sanxingdui was a highly developed and relatively museum, as its guide says, “is an intrigu- ing riddle.” No amount of intent brows- ing can shed any light on the origins of its…