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skywizard
26th December 2014, 03:02
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An archaeological site unearthed in 1986 in China revealed
giant bronze statues from a lost Chinese civilization called
Sanxingdui. Here, one of the bronze masks uncovered at
the site, which is roughly 3,000 years old. A new theory
suggests the ancient culture moved after an earthquake
rerouted the flow of the city's river.



An earthquake nearly 3,000 years ago may be the culprit in the mysterious disappearance of one of China's ancient civilizations, new research suggests.

The massive temblor may have caused catastrophic landslides, damming up the Sanxingdui culture's main water source and diverting it to a new location.

That, in turn, may have spurred the ancient Chinese culture to move closer to the new river flow, study co-author Niannian Fan, a river sciences researcher at Tsinghua University in Chengdu, China, said Dec. 18 at the 47th annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Read the full story at:

http://www.livescience.com/49247-chinese-civilization-disappearance-explained.html



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