More than 500 pieces of relics     1     (discover) at the Sanxingdui Ruins site last year. The relics include golden masks, jade and ivory artifacts and bronze wares     2     were exquisitely (精美地) built and     3     (unique) shaped, said the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration on Sept 9, 2021.

Tang Fei, chief of the Research Institute, said, “The new discoveries demonstrate once again that the imagination and     4     (create) of the ancient Chinese far surpassed     5     people today had expected.”

Tang     6     (add) that the excavation of the new pits entered a critical stage,     7     more items yet to be unearthed. He also anticipated that the items found would challenge the     8     (convention) wisdom of archaeologists.

    9     (locate) in the city of Guanghan, around 60 km from Chengdu, the ruins covering an area of 12 square km are believed to be the relics of the Shu Kingdom,     10     (date) back some 4,500 to 3,000 years.