alienation news

New digging to probe mystery of ancient Sanxingdui ruins

Archeologists will launch a large-scale excavation at the Sanxingdui Ruins in southwest China's Sichuan Province this year to probe the mysteries of a lost civilization dating back more than 3,000 years.
Sanxingdui, which is listed among China's top 10 archaeologicalfindings of the 20th century, has long been suspected to be the remains of the ancient Shu Kingdom that suddenly disappeared in southwest China between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago.
Three different ancient civilizations that developed separatelyare still enigmas for archeologists, while the exact meanings of the bronzes and masks remains unknown to archeologists at home andabroad.
Some have held that an alien species might be the answer. A previous report quoted the locals as saying that the ruins were visited by an unidentified flying object (UFO) in December 2000.