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« on: February 04, 2009, 12:06:37 pm »




                       






Another important piece of gold ware is a gold mask, discovered in February 2007. The mask was probably worn by sorcerers who communicated with divine forces.



It is 19.5 cm wide, 11 cm long, 0.04 cm thick and weighs 46 grams.



Gold masks were not common in China at that time, but widely used in Egypt and the Middle East.

"Some foreign visitors said the mask reminded them of people in their countries," said Zhao Bisong, a local Jinsha villager and now a security worker at the museum. "It's humbling to realize that our ancestors were able to make such vivid and striking things."
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