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Located beside the old museum building, the new building of the Sanxingdui Museum in southwest China's Sichuan Province has a total construction area of 54,400 square meters. A total of more than 1,500 pieces or sets of relics, including pottery, bronze, jade and gold wares are showcased in the new building, which has an exhibition area of 22,000 square meters.
Discovered in the late 1920s, the Sanxingdui Ruins have earned the reputation of being one of the world's greatest archaeological findings of the 20th century. The ruins, covering an area of 12 square km, are believed to be the remnants of the ancient Shu Kingdom, which had its heyday around 3,000 years ago.