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China: Mysterious building discovered in emperor's tomb (a buried step-pyramid?)
China Economic Net ^ | 07/01/07

Posted on 07/01/2007 12:31:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Mysterious building discovered in emperor's tomb

Last Updated(Beijing Time):2007-07-01 10:33

Chinese archaeologists said that after five years of research they have confirmed that there is a 30-meter-high building buried in the tomb of Qinshihuang, Chinese first emperor more than 2,000 years ago.

The building, buried in the 51-meter-high, pyramid-like earth above the tomb's main body underground, has four surrounding stair-like walls and each wall with nine steps of platforms, said Duan Qingbo, a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology.

The whole building were buried under the earth, which made it difficult for researchers to get a complete picture of it, according to Duan.

Duan said he believed the building may have been built for the soul of the emperor to go out.

Duan said they began to carry out research on the mausoleum's internal structure in 2002 with remote sensing technology, for it has not been allowed to be excavated.

The Qinshihuang's mausoleum is located near Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

In the 1970s, about 1,500 terracotta warriors and horses were unearthed from surrounding pits of the mausoleum. Warriors and horses were believed to be buried with Qin in order to safeguard him after his death.

Qinshihuang, who unified China in 221 BC, became the first emperor of a unified China.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; godsgravesglyphs; mercury; pyramid; qinshihuang; silkroad; terracotta; terracottaarmy; tlr; tomb
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To: Dr. Marten
"兵马俑 The Terra-Cotta Warriors"

Thanks, but I don't see any.

21 posted on 07/01/2007 9:44:53 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

You don’t see any what? Did you click on the link?

It works for me, but just in case try this: http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com/_the_terracotta_warriors.htm


22 posted on 07/01/2007 11:14:19 AM PDT by Dr. Marten (Bush Immigration Policy: No Illegal Alien Left Behind! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: swatbuznik

And flying saucers to carry the stone from place to place, humans not having learned how to move stone until the invention of the reciprocating gasoline engine.


23 posted on 07/01/2007 1:40:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: blam
All you need for green eyes is the gene for red-hair. You do not need to actually be a red-head.

My eyes were green until surgery and then they turned blue. The recovery time is very long after such a disaster.

24 posted on 07/01/2007 1:42:30 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Dr. Marten

I don’t see any terra-cotta warriors. I still don’t.


25 posted on 07/01/2007 3:26:47 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: muawiyah
"The recovery time is very long after such a disaster."

What disaster?

26 posted on 07/01/2007 3:28:01 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

27 posted on 07/01/2007 3:44:50 PM PDT by Dr. Marten (Bush Immigration Policy: No Illegal Alien Left Behind! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: blam

I take it you were being nitpicky about the hyphen?


28 posted on 07/01/2007 3:50:28 PM PDT by Dr. Marten (Bush Immigration Policy: No Illegal Alien Left Behind! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: cobaltblu

I believe that without the arch, using only stone, the only method you can build vertically is a rising slope.


29 posted on 07/01/2007 3:58:24 PM PDT by Lost Dutchman (If you’re going to call Islam a religion can we now call Auschwitz a theme park?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s a Colgate factory.


30 posted on 07/01/2007 4:01:03 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Dr. Marten
"I take it you were being nitpicky about the hyphen?"

No. I'm a nice fellow, I just don't see anything on that page that relates to terra cotta warriors.

I do see the beautiful picture in post #27. Maybe my computer filters it out or something?

BTW, my first wife's maiden name was Marten, she was from Canada.

31 posted on 07/01/2007 4:11:44 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: stayathomemom
Re: "...our guide new English, but she was still difficult to understand."

Hummmm... I wonder why?

Maybe... she knew too much...

32 posted on 07/01/2007 4:22:57 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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To: Bender2

k!


33 posted on 07/01/2007 5:23:21 PM PDT by stayathomemom
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Ancient Pyramids in China

34 posted on 07/01/2007 6:13:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 28, 2007.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; ...
Thanks GovernmentIsTheProblem.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

35 posted on 07/01/2007 6:13:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 28, 2007.)
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To: blam

Whew. I was hoping that you weren’t being a turd :o) Sounds like your virus software must be blocking the images for some reason; it might be the javascript that launches the thumbnails.


36 posted on 07/01/2007 6:23:09 PM PDT by Dr. Marten (Bush Immigration Policy: No Illegal Alien Left Behind! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: TigerLikesRooster
For those interested, the British Museum will be having a special exhibit of some of the Terracotta warriors from Xi'an, along with some other recent discoveries from the site. The exhibit will run from September 13, 2007 through April 6, 2008. Here is a link to the exhibit site:

China's Terracotta Army

37 posted on 07/01/2007 6:33:36 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: blam
Losing green eyes. Eye surgery for cataracts changed the color from green to blue. That is a disaster. Can you imagine what that will do to my biometric records?

They'll have me in a front leaning rest at every airport in America.

38 posted on 07/01/2007 7:39:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: blam

There are many ancient Chinese poems lamenting the green eyes of the Han emperors.
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All the ancient skeletons in and around Urumchi were Caucasian (types) until around 100-200BC.

Urumqi's pre-Sinicization racial composition would likely not have had any bearing on that of the Han emperors, given that the Han dynasty originated in Jiangsu (which is in coastal East China), not anywhere near Urumqi (which is in far Northwest China). In fact, no imperial Chinese dynasties, including the Qin, originated west of the Hexi corridor (Dunhuang, Urumqi, Kashi etc., where the Caucasoids were, according to records both historical and archaeological).

Exactly which poems do you speak of? Perhaps those poems are referring to the rulers of the Later Zhao state, which was a short-lived kingdom formed by rebellious immigrant workers from the Caucasoid Jie ethnicity in Northern China circa 320 AD. Now those people could conceivably have had green eyes.
39 posted on 07/02/2007 1:33:17 AM PDT by PuTiDaMo
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To: PuTiDaMo
"Exactly which poems do you speak of? Perhaps those poems are referring to the rulers of the Later Zhao state, which was a short-lived kingdom formed by rebellious immigrant workers from the Caucasoid Jie ethnicity in Northern China circa 320 AD. Now those people could conceivably have had green eyes. "

I read about it in this book: The Tarim Mummies Or, in the book, The Mummies Of Urumchi also mentioned below.

Here is a book review:

....[As] one who has participated in an aspect of this research-the extent to which at least some of the later Xinjiang mummies may have been Northeast Iranians (Saka, et al.), who subsequently had an impact on both China and Japan-I can attest that Mair and Mallory have critically assessed every possible explanation before concluding that the great bulk of this Europoid population, esepcially in the later period, were in all probability Tocharian speakers of one sort or another (the earliest Europoids in the region may have been archaic Iranians, an idea recently suggested by my colleague Dr. Elizabeth J. W. Barber).

Moreover, the textile evidence, intensely researched by Dr. Barber (see her widely-praised book THE MUMMIES OF URUMCHI, W.W. Norton & Co., 1999), reinforces the conclusion that the Europoids who settled in the Tarim Basin in the latter part 2nd millennium, B.C.E., shared a common origin with a variety of Western Indo-European speakers, including the Celts, whose textiles were preserved in the salt-filled graves at Hallstatt (ca. 1300-400 B.C.E.). This, of course, also points squarely in the direction of the Tocharians, who, despite the fact that they were the easternmost of the attested ancient Indo-European speakers, shared a great many specific linguistic features in common with the Western group, especially the Celts. (Incidently,...the pointed "witches hat" is in fact deeply embedded in the ancient Brythonic-and, by extension, Celtic-culture and predates the 17th century Puritan image...by at least two millennia.)

Yes, the great majority of the current population of the Tarim is Uyghur-speaking, that is, of Altaic origin, and yes, there are some physical similarities between some of the current inhabitants of the region and the tall, blue-eyed people whose mummified remains have become so controversial. But that is to be expected whenever a new population intrudes into a region-and we know beyond a reasonable doubt that the intrusion of the "Turkic" speaking Uyghurs into Xinjiang occurred in the 9th and 10th centuries B.C.E, over a millennium after the arrival of the Iranian- (or perhaps Tocharian-) speaking Europoids.

To cite a parallel situation, the vast majority of modern Mexicans speak Spanish, a tongue introduced by a conquering culture some five centuries ago. Physically, however, most Mexicans, including those with little or no "Indio" cultural heritage, still reflect their Native American ancestry, though with a fair amount of "Europoid" admixture, especially among the ruling elite.

In short, THE TARIM MUMMIES should be required reading for anyone seriously concerned with trans-Eurasian cultural connections in the course of the last six thousand years.

40 posted on 07/02/2007 3:05:38 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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