STORY: HK Palace Museum unveils special exhibition on cultural treasures from Sanxingdui Ruins
DATELINE: Sept. 27, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:03
LOCATION: HONG KONG, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the exhibition
2. SOUNDBITE (English): SHENGYU WANG, Assistant curator of Hong Kong Palace Museum

STORYLINE:

The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) unveiled Tuesday a special exhibition featuring new archaeological discoveries at world-renowned Sanxingdui Ruins.

Fifty-five important items, including bronzeware, jade and goldware, unearthed in the most recent excavations at the Sanxingdui Ruins between 2020 and 2022, are among the 120 artifacts on display. 

SOUNDBITE (English): SHENGYU WANG, Assistant curator of Hong Kong Palace Museum
"So I think the most fascinating part of our show is that we really want to give you a sense of interdisciplinary and inviting feeling.
We also have a lot of multimedia items which help you to see the details of the objects. So some of the objects which are 3D printed now in the Sanxingdui museum or virtually reconstructed are according to our experts in Sichuan. We showed them in a multimedia way. And in this way, you could see a lot more details."

Originally discovered in the late 1920s, the Sanxingdui Ruins have been dubbed as one of the world's greatest archaeological findings of the 20th century.
   
Located in the city of Guanghan, around 60 km from Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu, the ruins covering an area of 12 square km are believed to be the remnants of the Shu Kingdom, dating back some 4,500 to 3,000 years.

The exhibition runs until Jan. 8, 2024.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hong Kong, China.
(XHTV)