Ancient sculpture remnants reunited after 3,000 years

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Ancient sculpture remnants reunited after 3,000 years

STORY: Ancient sculpture remnants reunited after 3,000 years DATELINE: June 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: GUANGHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the newly unearthed bronze sculpture 2. various of the combination 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEI YU, Researcher, Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute STORYLINE: Chinese archaeologists confirmed Thursday that a newly unearthed bronze sculpture at the famed Sanxingdui Ruins site was successfully matched with another bronzeware part after being set apart about 3,000 years ago. The sophisticated bronze sculpture depicts a figure of a human head and snake body, with protruding eyes, tusks, and horns. Above the head is a cinnabar trumpet-shaped zun (an ancient wine vessel) and the figure is linked by its hands and a square pedestal urn-shaped lei (an ancient wine vessel.) Without the rear part of the body, the sculpture was recently excavated from the No. 8 sacrificial pit. Archaeologists later found that anoth

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