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Event archaeological East Asia

Sanxingdui

1200 BCE – 1000 BCE

Bronze Age site in Sichuan, China, with enigmatic gold masks and towering bronze statues from a mysterious unknown civilization.

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Standing in 1200 BCE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers Polity · Oceania 2000 BCE – 1815 CE Hawaii Volcanoes Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Rwenzori Mountains Landmark · Africa 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Etna Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing

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1274 BCE Egyptian–Hittite Wars 1264 BCE Abu Simbel 1208 BCE Sea Peoples Invasions 1200 BCE Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1200 BCE Sardis 1194 BCE Trojan War & Late Bronze Age Conflicts