Jinsha Site Museum

While my husband K was out of the country for business, the kids and I had to fill our days with adventure to stave off boredom!  We decided to go check out the Jinsha Site Museum.  It was a great little afternoon trip that didn't take more than a couple of hours. (S has a short attention span!)  You can read more about the Jinsha Site here.

The dig site is inside a huge building and you can wander through the walkways to get a good look at everything.

We were a little disappointed when we started seeing all these lumps of dirt with pictures next to them.  The sign explained that everything under the mounds of dirt were too delicate to be left above ground.(At this point we were hoping that this wasn't how the whole museum was going to go!)

Rows and rows of pottery ware that was unearthed in the site.

Gold, bronze and jade were three materials that they found a lot of.  This is a gold mask.  There were blades made from jade, arrowheads of bronze, and plenty of gold leaf decorations.

Outside the museum are beautiful grounds with paths and greenery.  This is called the Ebony Forest where all of these preserved tree trunks were erected to make a forest.