Ancient gold relics on display in Beijing

An exhibition at the Poly Art Museum in Beijing of ancient Chinese relics is proving very popular, according to Chinese news service News.cn.

The display will include artefacts from the 5,000-year-old Shu Kingdom.

Cultural relics were found among the Jinsha and Sanxingdui ruins in the south west of the Sichuan province.

Among the 140 objects on show will be masks made of gold, gold fish-shaped belts and gold sculptures of human heads.

The attraction is called From Sanxingdui to Jinsha - Treasures from Ancient Shu Kingdom and has been created jointly by the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics and the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage.

From the Sanxingdui ruins in Guanghan City, archaeologists found over 1,000 different relics including gold masks and jade tablets which have been dated back between 2,800 and 4,800 years ago.

The Sichuan region is known as the local haunt of pandas in China, with the majority of the 1,600 known wild pandas living in the area.