Jinsha Site Museum （North Gate）
Bronze Age riverside altar site where a golden sun and bird ornament, ivory tusks and jade cong were unearthed by chance.
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This guide to the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu opens in February 2001, when a bulldozer clearing ground for an apartment complex struck an ancient riverside site that turned out to hold thousands of jade, gold and bronze relics, including a huge cache of elephant tusks. It follows the discovery of a small gold ornament, a spinning sun ringed by four birds, that later became Chengdu's official city emblem. You'll hear how archaeologists read this ground as a place of ritual offering to gods nobody recorded by name. Look for that same sun-and-birds motif echoed elsewhere across the city today.
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