Blogger Discovers Ancient Chinese ‘Angry Bird’

AndiApril 26, 2011

This mighty fine looking ‘space owl’ currently on display at Shanxi Museum is actually a 3000 year old drinking vessel from the late Shang Dynasty and is actually known as Xiaoyou.

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But recently this picture of the ancient artifact was posted on Sina Weibo and has been re-tweeted 5000 times and received more than 500 comments due to the ‘cutesy antiquity’’s likeness to the popular Roxio Angry Bird video game character.

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Via: Sina Weibo

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