The Shang Dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE) was the second dynasty of China which succeeded the Xia Dynasty (c. 2700-1600 BCE). [Wikipedia]
Breaking News & World News -- Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices Unearthed in China
Posted on 08/24/2018 2:40:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Once mistaken for the Great Wall of China, archeologists have unearthed an ancient city complete with a 70-meter (230-foot) pyramid, decapitated heads, and a bounty of precious gems. The 4,300-year-old stone city is now named Shimao, although its ancient name is unknown. At 400 hectares... Shimao is found in a region often been described in Chinese histories as a home to "barbarians". While little is known about the ancient city, its grandeur and intricacy suggest it was once politically and economically important in the region. The buildings were quarried from nearby sandstone whose extraction, transportation, and use were labor-intensive and sophisticated. Take the pyramid palace built in the center of the town, for starters. Built around 2300 BC, the 11-story structure was reinforced with stone buttresses and defensive walls. Found in the walls of the pyramid and in nearly every stone structure are jade insets, tools, and other decorations... Six pits containing decapitated human heads indicates that human sacrifice occurred here on a "massive scale". Morphological analyses of the remains suggest the victims could have been captives from nearby warring groups - a claim reinforced by the fortified walls strategically placed around the city to keep people out. "The jade objects and human sacrifice may have imbued the very walls of Shimao with ritual and religious potency, amplifying its significance as a monumental center, enhancing the protective efficacy of the walls and making this a place of power in every sense," wrote the authors in their study published in Antiquity. The team speculates that Shimao flourished over such a large region for around 500 years and could have encompassed more than 4,000 settlements.
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The Shang Dynasty (c.1600-1046 BCE) was the second dynasty of China which succeeded the Xia Dynasty (c. 2700-1600 BCE). [Wikipedia]
Breaking News & World News -- Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices Unearthed in China
This should have been the digest ping, I just hadn't seen it. Apologies for having two this week.
Isn’t it odd that ALL major ancient civilizations had pyramids even though most had no contact with each other? Maybe the guy with the weird hair is on to something.
Another cheap knock-off by the Chinese of Egypt
I’m not saying it was aliens...
But it was aliens.
“archaeologists have unearthed an ancient city complete with ...decapitated heads”
I had no idea Islam dated back that far.
Not really odd. How else are you going to build a tall structure with stone and only limited engineering concepts?
The question is, why aren't *we* building 'em?!? ;^)
:)
The aliens have gone to a dome design.
George Van Tassel's Integratron (from Venus).
Won’t repeat the post anywhere. Will not support a website that has to use the “f - word” to describe itself.
The pyramid shape is the easiest to use to build a large building.
So it is like looking at houses and saying that all the ones that are built in a round shape must have had contact with each other where as the ones built in a rectangle must have come from someplace else.
LiveScience had the story, but my poor old machine wouldn’t load it.
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
Where is the city? The only thing I saw in the article concerning its location is that it’s near the Great Wall, so it’s somewhere in northern China. At a minimum, I would like to know what province it is in. If it’s in Henan or Shaanxi, the builders were probably the ancestors of today’s Chinese. If it’s anywhere else, the builders could be anybody.
Interesting. Thanks for posting!
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