# Solly 2022: Trove of 13,000 Artifacts Sheds Light on Enigmatic Chinese Civilization > Meilan Solly, 2022. 12 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the 2020–2022 finds and the excavators' comments. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D739NV63J28/trove-of-13-000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui)Solly 2022 **0** # Trove of 13,000 Artifacts Sheds Light on Enigmatic Chinese Civilization Meilan Solly, 2022. _Smithsonian Magazine_. Report of 14 June 2022, from Xinhua and other sources, on about 13,000 objects from six new pits, including a bronze altar, a tortoise-shaped box with jade inside, and a figure with a human head on a snake's body holding a lei vessel with a zun on its head. **Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits** Web pageChecked against the original0 ## What it's used for here Cited for the 2020–2022 finds and the excavators' comments. ## Cited by on this site 12 records [Political change, such as conquest or the rise of a new centre at Jinsha, ended Sanxingdui.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/answers/ANS0D73A29M5YFK/political-change-such-as-conquest-or-the-rise-of-a-new) Answer ANS [The objects were ritually retired when a temple was refurbished or the centre moved, and buried with care.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/answers/ANS0D739YCM34J6/the-objects-were-ritually-retired-when-a-temple-was) Answer ANS [Bronze box with tortoise-shaped lid and jade inside](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/artifacts/ART0D73A4FY4CB6/bronze-box-with-tortoise-shaped-lid-and-jade-inside) ART [Bronze figure with a human head on a snake's body, holding a lei, with a zun on its head](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/artifacts/ART0D73A4847Y61/bronze-figure-with-a-human-head-on-a-snakes-body-holding-a) ART [Sanxingdui Museum collection online](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0D73A3RG6YX5/sanxingdui-museum-collection-online) Dataset DAT [Jinsha, about 50 km away, has similar objects and is seen as the next centre.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/evidence/EVD0D739YME085J/jinsha-about-50-km-away-has-similar-objects-and-is-seen-as) Evidence EVD [Similar objects at Jinsha suggest the community moved there.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/evidence/EVD0D73A2HE3SXF/similar-objects-at-jinsha-suggest-the-community-moved-there) Evidence EVD [Traces of bamboo, reeds, soybeans, cattle and boar accompany the objects, read as offerings.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/evidence/EVD0D739XDC52QS/traces-of-bamboo-reeds-soybeans-cattle-and-boar-accompany) Evidence EVD [About 13,000 objects from the new pits are announced](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/events/EVT0D739VEW53N0/about-13-000-objects-from-the-new-pits-are-announced) EVT [Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui) The mystery article MYS [Why was Sanxingdui abandoned?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/questions/QST0D739WNY79DE/why-was-sanxingdui-abandoned) Question QST [Why were the Sanxingdui objects broken, burned and buried?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/questions/QST0D739VYG5PHX/why-were-the-sanxingdui-objects-broken-burned-and-buried) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Solly, M. (2022). Trove of 13,000 Artifacts Sheds Light on Enigmatic Chinese Civilization. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-13000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese-civilization-180980254/ ``` [Read it free at smithsonianmag.com](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-13000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese-civilization-180980254/) Key **SRC** 0D739NV63J28 Kind Web page Rights The publisher's Kept 29 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D739NV63J28/trove-of-13-000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese/csl.json)