Hold onto your explorer hats! 🧢 The enigmatic Sanxingdui sacrificial pits—a puzzle that’s baffled historians for decades—just got a major update. At the 2025 Sanxingdui Forum in Sichuan, researchers dropped a bombshell: the exact dates of these 3,000-year-old relics are finally confirmed!
Using radiocarbon dating (think science meets time travel 🔬⏳), a dream team from the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Peking University pinpointed the burial dates of Pits 3, 4, 6, and 8 to between 1201 BC and 1012 BC. That’s smack in the late Shang Dynasty era—when bronze bling and oracle bones were all the rage.
Why does this matter? 🤔 Sanxingdui’s wild-eyed masks and towering statues have long hinted at a lost civilization rivaling the Shang. Now, this timeline connects the dots, proving these two ancient powerhouses coexisted. Archaeologists are geeking out: "It’s like finding a missing chapter in China’s origin story," one expert told the forum crowd.
Next time you binge Indiana Jones, remember—real-life archaeology just got way cooler. 🌟
