This 3,000-year-old Chinese civilization had alien masks! 

Ahh tianran he is back, I like when he hosts, his passion for the topic and english accent is really good

I have long wanted to visit China. I have many Chinese friends. I pray that our respective Governments grow up and just get along instead of always being disrespectful to each other. Peace and harmony should be the goal of governments.

I’m from Chengdu, Sichuan. I do know quite a few people who look like those masks/statues, with somewhat protruding eyes and huge ears.

Thank you so much for the English narration! This let us all take part in the discovery of the past life on earth.

Another excellent presentation by Travelogue & CGTN! Very interesting and informative. Thanks for posting.

A breathtaking discovery and very eye opening. I have to compliment the camera work also. This is one of the few documentaries that is a pleasure to watch from start to finish. Looking forward to more from this stable

This is a very great documentary. Thank you for making such a comprehensive documentary about the archaeological discovery of the Kingdom of Shu.

Wow... I have always been so fascinated by Chinese History and this adds more embers to that fascination.

Some of this art from Shaxingdui looks remarkably like old Mayan art. The masks also bear a certain resemblance to Tiki images from Hawaii.

3,000 year old artifacts have recently been discovered in China and a mask found at the site resembles these masks.

Check out the pre-Incan Chimu and Sican cultures in Peru, the similarities are remarkable! Their legend has the first ruler coming over seas by boat, and their art and religion was different from the cultures there before, they also burned their cities when they left. If these two cultures are related what happened between 2000 years of them leaving China and getting to the coast of Peru around 900ad? Fascinating stuff.

@CGTN thank you for this very interesting video

This really is a magnificent discovery when you consider the size, the lack of plundering and the unusual facial replicas! It does make me wonder how or why they chose the shapes you see here. What they produced before these discoveries, when or how they learned to find the source of the metals, melt them and create such a high quality craftsmen ship ! Amazing!

Woah 😲 It looks Mayan-ish.

Outstanding documentary. Thank you for making this and posting it.

11:48 The most famous of these unearthed cultural relics. A huge bronze statue (2 meters height). He wore traditional Chinese clothing. There is a dragon totem in the center of the clothes. There is a crown on the head. This is obviously the identity of the Chinese emperor or aristocracy.

COMPLETELY FASCINATING. What a Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing these Marvellous Artifacts. - GLORIOUS! I'm sharing this! Blessings Always : )

Very interesting. As some may have alluded, there is a MesoAmerican similarity which may point to a common influence maybe. but the clothing on the tall standing man looks distinctively Chinese. Also those birds on the tree remind me of Hornbills in Borneo and Dayak/Iban culture. Elephants and Rhinos I believe were prevalent in China at the time. Many of the original inhabitants in Southern China were pushed further south over time into South East Asia. But this is Near West/South West China. Population movement back and forth. links to the Burmese coast and Indian ocean alluded, plenty of influence may have also come from India.

Very intriguing documentary CTGN and Li Hui! I never knew about this civilization until now! Some images reminded me of the Inuit native artistry in Alaska and British Columbia. If this culture was on the edge of the borders of the ancient civilizations of China maybe they came from another area, like the Chichen at Chichen Itza and the surrounding Maya people in Mexico. The surrounding Maya to the Chichen, like at Uxmal, and Mayapan... referred to the Chichen as the people with a foreign tongue, something like that, making the distinction the Chichen spoke another language and came from somewhere else. The Chichen sacred symbols were different then the Maya too. They theorize the Chichen came from the north. Maybe the Sanxingdui came from far to the west. I wonder if those are Wooly Mammoth tusks they found in the sacrificial pit. Maybe the tusks were found in the tundra far north, or maybe they are present day elephant tusks. I wonder why there were no human remains.

An outstanding presentation.! Much of past history remains hidden and unknown.

they look like Polynesian and the Maori structure of New Zealand.

We have to rewrite human history of civilization. Very interesting!

ThankU for sharing and posting.

My compliment goes to the host because of his excellent presentation. I've found him so good that I thought: If he was selling groceries a the local market I would buy his stuff, and if he were my local politician I would certainly vote for him. He's good for sure!

These Ancient Chinese people were rated to the time of the Anunaki. It's is said that they were told to go East. Hence the Asian beginning. The others went to the west mainly Central West. The Mayan empire. There are many Pyramids in China begger than Egyptian Pyramids.

giving me an easter island vibe. the big heads... so interesting. wow.

Loved this Vid ty

Wonderful exhibition, excellent buildings and showcases. Thank you

The features on the masks look almost Mayan.... 🤔

Great presentation. Liked and subbed

Magnificent civilization!!! Why doesn’t CGTN include English subtitles? I wanted to forward this video to my friends who want to go there but they have a hard time understanding oral English….

Fantastic!!! i thought of peoples of pacific islands, natives of north west USA, natives of central america, in some details of the masks, and decorations. The rooster reminded me of a story on how chickens are same kind in Peru and Easter Island. Humans have always traveled great distances by currents and the stars, to meet and trade. Great, thanks :)!!!

I just love how he said how to achieve such an engraving today on the gold belt it could only be achieved through laser etching.

it amazes me that cities just disappear into obscurity with the times.

The masks look ancient Hindu/ Balinese/Mayan in features...

There is a hole where the pineal gland (third eye) would be on the mask that almost seems to be blinded with stakes in its eyes.

Wow this job is perfect for this host! Fluent in Chinese AND with perfect English

Amaaaazing ☝️👍👍👍🙏🙏thx a lot

MOST intriguing. So much we dont know. Europe also has old civilisations that disappeared. This culture must be very advanced to have such intricate bronze. China as a feel has about 5000 yo civilisation. so far not much except some evidence, like the great floods and legendary kings 4000 years ago were assumed to be myths in Sima Qian's history books, but now proven by geologists as a certainty. Also exquisite cutlery made 6000 years ago. Well, fascinating China.

A beautiful civilization from humanity's distant past of unknown people's. Intriguing and exciting for those involved in excavations , intrigue as to who these people / were. Would thoroughly love to be given the opportunity to see and assist those archeologists.

I am a Dayaknese North Kalimantan with Chinese surnames. I could find Dayak North Kalimantan and East Kalimantan culture alot in China. 😅 including these statues and all things there in Yunnan, Dian Ancient Chinese Kingdom and in this video...sanxingdui. they look alike hudoq mask of dayak. one of the head birds there is a symbol of mandao dayak sword. How come 😅😅

Awesome and reminds one of the artefacts of the Benin Empire.. one world, one people

Ancient Civilization is very interesting,but it opens up more Questions then it answers, the musk faces look alien as the eyes are wide set and more oval shaped.....the question is Who made them? Who made the staff? and the bronze tree absolutely magnificent!!!

China has so many finds of old history.

Wow, I'll be the first to admit I disagree with current chinese political thought , but I agree that ancient China and Chinese culture always intrigues and impresses me , love Chinese history.

All people, races and nation comes from one place. You can even see the resemblances in their art . Bottom line, we were one race... the Human Race

The mask types resembles the typical art of similar origin from prehistoric megalithic age on miscellaneous stone carvings at Pasemah observed by Van Der Hoop 1932 ..

Nice info on pass history ✍

It seems you found the final period of a great civilisation. You must find the much older beginning of this civilisation.

Mayans and Chinese look similar and these masks are similar to Mayan statues

Farmers play such a pivotal role in discovering lost civilizations and ancient artifacts. I guess the farmers are compensated and relocated somewhere else so the land can be dug up and artefacts processed.

Amazing!

This looks like what you see in Mexico or Central America.

Sincères félicitations pour l'extraordinaire et exemplaire travail des archéologues chinois, ainsi qu'aux autorités de tutelle du gouvernement de la Chine. le complexe muséographique est remarquable. Mon maître A. Leroy-Gourand disait: "Lorsqu’un individu n’est plus là, et qu’il n’y pas de témoignages écrits, il ne reste que deux faits : L’Art et les technologies. A. Leroy-Gourand.

From my hometown

11:14 What a craftsmen incredible

WOW, WOW FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST REGARDS FROM CANADA

I wonder if there were objects that would be hung from the protruding eye stakes in the mask, and lit like a candle. Or maybe the mask was like a template, pressed into clay, with the clay being a mask, and the stakes would leave holes in the clay relief to see out of. (I guess they would have found remains of that then...)

Kool !

Design pieces are a mix of Mayans, Aztecas, mezoamerican civiliziations AND Chinese.

3000 year old ancient artifacts of artistry

I would like to know (such a beautiful docu brings more questions than answers...) If the archaeologists have already found tombs, which could so much information about rituals, believes and, in the lucky chance they've already found bones, information about the Bio characteristics of that ethnic group. Cannot wait for more discoveries... Another consideration: it seems like the Sanxingdui culture has been terminated at the same time when, in the Mediterranean basin, happened the Bronze Age Collapse. Could have been a worldwide climate change that has affected all the planet?

Does this have any connection with the 12 mirrors of Yata?

Film is great, but why was the sound recorded via Telefon on old cellphones?

I’m from Guanghan!

almost looks like south/central/mexican artifacts.

I think that there was a united world advanced civilisation. They had advanced technology. I think there was a massive cataclysm 12'500 to 6'000 years ago that saw the fall and loss of this civilisation and technology.

I've always wondered where the Ferengi came from.

How come we are now learning about this? Why doesn’t China share all these beautiful studies before. I am so glad China is finally sharing their art from ancient civilizations. I bet. These artifacts are way older then they say. Can carbon date the bronze in the USA I bet we can find elements that we didn’t know could be made.

This seems to be a rather misleading title for this video. These masks and statues are interesting and indeed mysterious, but not alien!

Did I miss anything? Why is it call Sanxing Dui? Sanxing in Chinese means three stars. Does it mean it has something to do with Orion's Belt? If if does, I have to say these ancient beings maybe aliens from the three stars of the the Belt.

Impressive!!!

awesome

Tusks are not likely from foreign trade. Even today-asian elephants swim from one island to others in the sea of Indonesia - where the style of the masks and other sculptings are almost identical with these. So is it unlikely that todays Chinese came from Eszkimos (nomads as always) interacted, mixed with these malays?🐱‍👤🐼

The faces look completely human. What the hell are you talking about?

Beautiful

Toltec civilization has similar masks

Ironic, ᛁ was there at the museum and my mom was telling me about the theory. Then here ᛁ am now watching this thats been recommended, what a coincidence.

The second the words Alien and archaeology come together everybody gets super interested

I chiseled little masks out of wood that look like this as a kid

Reminds me of the art in NW Washington Salish Tribes

My first thought was Polynesian or Tlingit (or any other tribe that makes totem poles)

The holes in the large mask can be a sun clock or celestial devise of some sort.....holes are in center and at sides...the design is similar to South American architecture.....China has pyramids all over the place🇻🇳☝️

3000 years old? Thought it’s 8000 or 9000 years old

Even though many people saying it looks like this or that culture, but nothing as fine crafted like sanxingdui items… The fact is these were found in China from thousands years ago not anywhere else. There’s no need to attack Chinese people with political mind. Earth is a small planet, one world one love🤟

I can say that chinese ppl arrived to what we call now the " americas" before the Spanish the huge difference with the european conquest is that they didn't destroy our culture , super what happened with our natives.

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WOW :)

The very large ears is an ethnic marker evident in meany megalithic busts. This speaks to an advanced world wide civilization that was lost in one of several world wide catastrophes. Soon our current technologies will be able to detect the time capsule like libraries that are out there awaiting discovery.

Audio muffled?

hey thats the mask from that epic series from TVB starring Louis Koo in step into the past, the assassin leader always wore that mask.

Looks like mask in Peru machupichu

That's one handsome host :)

They look like a mix between Mayan and Chinese

I was lucky enough to find two of these bronze mask heavy gold covered. Somewhere in the past they might of met others not of China.

The beliefs are the same, about jade and mountains. Same as the Mesoamérican and South American indigenous people. The tree if life too. Wow!

A magnificent discovery and marvellous presentation. The perplex Sandinxhui mask similar to mayan or tiki cultures are beyond comprehension. Unfortunately writers are septical on its origin or tried to infered that it came from the west dishonoring the find.

So much of our human history is buried, destroyed, or hoarded. We all should have access to this info. Things don't add up...

For me they look like Mayan or Aztecs from Andes - not Egyptian. The birds and the masks look similiar to Quetzalcoatl in Wiki. I would find it interesting when there was a trade route to the Andes... which would explain the use of gold and the symbols on the golden stick too. And maybe some Mayan stayed there and build this city this would explain why the neighbours did not talk about them in the history book. People might have married the locals, and the city was given up later on for various reasons and disappeared into the unknown.

The masks don’t look Chinese but still someone lived there, looks like a mystery!! I like that today China’s people are preserving the things and the history!!