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Recently, the remains of a gold mask are among a huge pit (坑) of 3,000-year-old items found at an archaeological(考古的) site in China’s Sichuan province. 【小题1】 (weigh) about 280 grams and estimated to have 84% gold, the gold mask is one of over 500 items unearthed from six 【小题2】 (new) discovered “sacrificial pits”.

In addition to the gold mask, archaeologists uncovered bronzes, gold foils and items 【小题3】 (make) from ivory, jade and bone. The six pits also unearthed a mysterious wooden box and a bronze vessel (器皿) which are hard 【小题4】 (explain). Since the 1920s, archaeologists 【小题5】 (discover) more than 50,000 ancient items at Sanxingdui.

The latest finds enrich and deepen archaeologists’ 【小题6】 (understand) of how civilization developed in ancient China. In particular, evidence of a unique Shu culture suggests that the kingdom developed independently of neighboring societies in the Yellow River Valley, 【小题7】 was traditionally considered to be the birthplace of Chinese civilization.

Though not yet recognized 【小题8】 a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sanxingdui is on the organization’s “possible future list”. Along with other Shu archaeological 【小题9】 (site), it is considered by the UN agency to be “【小题10】 outstanding representative of the Bronze Age Civilization of China, East Asia and even the world”.