Hunt for treasure yields many artifacts in river

Archaeological excavation listed among China's top finds in 2017

Nearly three months of digging for sunken treasure in a section of the Minjiang River in Meishan, Sichuan province, has yielded 12,000 relics 400 years old.

Archaeologists have unearthed gold, silver and iron weapons, including a blunderbuss. The dig started in January in a section of the river that runs through Jiangkou township in the city's Pengshan district.