If you could travel back 3, 000 years 【小题1】 (see) what life was like in a capital city of the Shang Dynasty (16th—11th century BC) , what would you find? Now, you can do just that at the new building of the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Henan Province, 【小题2】 was opened to the public on Feb 26.

【小题3】 (cover) an area of 22,000 square meters, the museum is the first national major archaeological museum to present the Shang civilization comprehensively. About three-fourths of nearly 4,000 items or sets of cultural relics have never been 【小题4】 (public) exhibited before.

The Yinxu Ruins, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006, are 【小题5】 earthshaking significance. The 【小题6】 (discovery) there have resolved long-standing misunderstandings about Chinese history and culture. Also on display 【小题7】 (be) oracle bones called “The Prince’s Diary”, recording a prince’s life in the Shang Dynasty, and through them you can see 【小题8】 (he) life is very relatable to today’s teenagers. Some cultural elements 【小题9】 (root) in daily life have remained unchanged. This cultural continuity is inherited, and the 【小题10】 (spirit) quality of a nation remains constant.

Anyone 【小题1】 has visited the Terracotta in Xi’an knows that they are colorless. But you may be surprised 【小题2】 (learn) that they’re not showing their “true colours” at all. 【小题3】 exhibition in Xi’an displayed 121 colored terracotta relics, 【小题4】 (date) back to the Qin Dynasty.

The colours on the exhibited sculptures include 【小题5】 is known as the “Chinese purple”. It wasn’t a natural paint 【小题6】 was a man-made compound (化合物). It was so expensive to produce the mysterious color that the use of Chinese purple 【小题7】 (consider) a symbol of luxury and status.

However, the colour had never been successfully preserved on the famous soldiers until the 1990s, when a lotion (乳液) was invented to apply 【小题8】 the surface of the sculpture as soon as they were unearthed.

The warriors 【小题9】 (draw) great attention since they were first displayed to the public, and 【小题10】 (hope), more colorful pottery figures will be discovered in the future

The discovery of the Yangshao village site in Sanmenxia, Henan province, in 1921, marked 【小题1】 birth of modern Chinese archaeology(考古学). In the past century, many generations of Chinese archaeologists 【小题2】 (make) fruitful findings across the country.

On October 18, the National Cultural Heritage Administration announced the top 100 archacological discoveries in China in the past 100 years 【小题3】 the opening ceremony of the third Chinese Archacology Congress in Sanmenxia.

In addition to the Yangshao site, many names familiar to the general public 【小题4】 (include) on the list. Among them are the Sanxingdui bronze civilization site in Sichuan, the mausoleum(陵墓)of Qinshihuang in Shaanxi,【小题5】 the Zhoukoudian site in Beijing 【小题6】 the famous Peking Man skull(头骨)fossil was discovered.

“It provides great 【小题7】 (inspire) for Chinese scholars,【小题8】 (build) their confidence. It also fills them with 【小题9】 (nation) pride.” Chen Xingcan, director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Archacology, told China Daily.

“The last 100 years’ archacological research in China has 【小题10】 (true) changed our understanding of a global and human story,” said British archacolopy professor Ian Hodder.