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.
Ping!
How cool! I got to go see the terracotta soldiers and to stand on top of his mausoleum mound. It was cool. I’m telling you that whenever they finally get to open that tomb and then open it to the public, I hope I get to go see the inside for myself. That is going to be amazing.
On another Chinese note, you should check out the article I just wrote and posted on FR called “China and Change.”
Or was that someone else?
Is it because it's just natural to build in this manner when using stone?
pingeroo.
I saw it too a couple of years ago. I wish at the time I was more aware of what I was seeing, our guide new English, but she was still difficult to understand.
By burying it?
Isn’t the tomb, or surrounding environs, supposed to have had a fabled silver lake (i.e., mercury)?
Yes, inside the tomb. Recent samplings indicate high levels of mercury on and around the mound...high enough to support the ancient claim.
You may be interested in this book by Dr Robert Schoch:
Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders
And this one.
BTW, there are more pyramids in Mexico that all the rest of the world combined.
The Chinese do have 56 different ethnic groups which make up their population. Some of them are very much Caucasian or at least Middle Eastern as I myself saw. Their Muslim populations are a mix of Central Asian, Han Chinese, Persian and other lineages. I saw people that, if I had seen them on the streets of the U.S., I would never have thought they were Chinese.
But Qin Shi Huang I believe was very “Chinese-looking”. Every indication is that he would have been black-haired, dark-eyed and “yellow”-skinned (as the Chinese style themselves. All the ancient depictions of him that I’m aware of have him as such.
*Is it because it’s just natural to build in this manner when using stone?*
Of course not, humans are too stupid to think of this design, it requires alien intelligence to impart the wisdom to us/ sarc
That’s okay. Just read up on it online. It’ll make a lot of what you saw make more sense.
BTW, the religious history surrounding Qin Shi Huang (who was a horrible tyrant) is very interesting as well.
This is unfortunately true. They have yet to quite grasp the importance of preserving their country’s tangible history, which is amazing considering how proud the average Chinese person is of their history. The average person also seems to actually know more about their ancient history than the average American would know about ours.
But the archaeology thing is still in shambles there. I happen to know that around where I lived, 2000-year-old graves and their contents are purposely destroyed by construction workers because unfortunately the legal situation surrounding the discovery of such a thing is less than economically favorable. Basically, if they report that they’ve found it, they lose any hope of being able to use the land or continue their building project because the government can take control of that property for archaeological reasons-—permanently. It isn’t like here where archaeological digs are carried out and then the land is returned to the developers. It’s all up to the government there, and the construction guys do not want to face the loss.
There are other archaeological horror stories in China, but truth be told, I’m not sure they’re much worse than the stories of archaeological destruction carried out by the early colonists of this country. I don’t really blame people for putting the present ahead of the past, but someday their children or grandchildren will wish it could have been done differently.
Some accounts have Gingis Khan with red-hair and green eyes.
All the ancient skeletons in and around Urumchi were Caucasian (types) until around 100-200BC.
One day (probably after I'm dead, lol), we'll know for sure. I believe DNA will eventually tell an amazing story.
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