The 4 prized exhibits - a complete bronze statue of a man, a gold sceptre, a bronze knife & a bronze tree. The last one in particular, took 10 years to piece together. As the guide rightfully put it, many of the exhibits here are like pro level Lego, where the archaeologists have to piece together, without any manual or sample.

What makes Sanxingdui so unique and special is that after almost 100 years since the discovery of the first item, they've still yet to find any records of language and written literature, that could further explain the purpose of these items and makes it harder to trace the start of this civilisation and what happened to them (what ended them). So alot of what is seen and described by the guide are opinion-based / guess info. But I think that's what makes this whole place and museum so intriguing. Such expertise and finesse displayed in the artifacts such as the ability to carve drawings into fine, thin, gold plates, to cut thru jade without any real tools, at least none discovered yet. Hence many mysteries remain unsolved, un-answered. What's the mystical creature the man appears to be riding? What does the different hairdo or hair dresshead symbolise? What tools did they use to cut thru the jade? How did they communicate? Why the obsession with the prayers (what was unearthed appears to be used in ceremonial prayers)? What Gods did they pray to? Why did the civilisation end?

And because there were so many unsolved mysteries, the civilisation was once thought to be of alien descent. Very interesting museum, I enjoyed it very much.

There's also an area opposite the main museum where you can watch how the archaeologists work.