Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology
Riverside archaeology museum built over an ancient iron-smelting settlement's graves and artifacts.
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This guide to the Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology in Taipei starts with an air force pilot in 1955 whose compass spun wildly near Mount Kuanyin, and the geologist who later traced the anomaly to traces of ancient iron smelting on the riverbank below. Archaeologists spent decades digging up pottery jars with elongated faces, glass bracelets, gold pendants, and close to two hundred graves, the dead curled on their sides, heads turned toward the southwest.
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