HK Palace Museum unveils special exhibition on cultural treasures from Sanxingdui Ruins

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

HK Palace Museum to showcase cultural treasures from Sanxingdui Ruins

STORY: HK Palace Museum to showcase cultural treasures from Sanxingdui Ruins DATELINE: May 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:20 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of signing ceremony 2. various of cultural treasures from Sanxingdui Ruins 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): TANG FEI, President of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archeology Research Institute 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LOUIS NG, Director of the HKPM 5. various of cultural treasures from Sanxingdui Ruins STORYLINE: The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) on Monday announced it will showcase 120 precious cultural relics from the world-renowned Sanxingdui Ruins in a four-month exhibition slated to begin in late September this year. The exhibition will focus on new archaeological discoveries in southwest China's Sichuan Province represented by Sanxingdui. Cultural relics such as bronzeware, jade, goldware, and pottery artifacts dating back 2,600 to 3,300 years will be displayed. Most of the exhibits will be showcased outside Sichu

Ancient sculpture remnants reunited at Sanxingdui Ruins

STORY: Ancient sculpture remnants reunited at Sanxingdui Ruins DATELINE: Jan. 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:55 LOCATION: CHENDGU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of sculpture remnants STORYLINE: A bronze figure at the famed Sanxingdui Ruins site was successfully matched with another animal bronzeware with the help of a three-dimensional (3D) model, the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archeology Research Institute confirmed Monday. The two bronzeware parts are from different sacrificial pits. The combination of the two parts also indicates that the two pits were formed at the same time. 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, 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. So far, more than 50,000 items of bronzeware, jade, goldware, pottery, and ivory artifact