New Birthplace of Chinese Civilization

Ancient Origens ^ | 8/15/18 | Ed Whelan

[wildbill]

A recent discovery at a ruined city in north-west China has amazed archaeologists and other experts. Researchers at the Bronze Age archaeological site of Shimao have identified a large step pyramid. This unusual find is bound to add to our knowledge of early China and throw some light on the mysterious culture that thrived for centuries in the city of Shimao. It is also challenging notions as to when and where Chinese civilization began to develop and where it first emerged.

[wildbill]

Wait until the Ancient Aliens bunch hears about a newly discovered Step Pyramid in the 5000 y.o buried city of Shinao in NW China.

It is kinda odd that all these ancient civilizations built pyramids. Somebody must have been selling the plans for cheap worldwide, eh?

[dirtymac]

As I recall Pyramid Power keep razor blades sharp and enhance sexual capabilities.

[fruser1]

So even then they were stealing technology.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

First you build one story houses.

Then you build walls around those houses.

Then you build watch towers and defense platforms.

Then you build you first big building and it is probably going to be some type of pyramid.

Big base, smaller flat top, the easiest shape to build.

[frank ballenger]

Sorry.

The episode of Ancient Aliens Season 11 was
15 Jul. 2016
The Hidden Empire

.... but some say the most compelling can be found in one of the world’s least accessible places—China. China is the cradle to one of mankind’s earliest and most influential civilizations.

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The Chinese are secretive and deceitful about the existing ancient structures and they deliberately covered them with bulldozed and truck carried soil and seeds so foliage can obscure them from the sky. Nothing to see here just move on.

[sasportas]

Connect the dots:
1. First, the Biblical Tower of Babel, its “tower” a ziggurat, or pyramid
2. the pyramids of Egypt, Mayan pyramids in central America, Inca pyramids in South America
3 it should thus come as no surpise that they have found yet another one in China.

[Ben Hecks]

I think the plans were available in Popular Science so that explains why all the pyramids around the world looked similar.

[Capt_Hank]

LOL.... I’m watching “Ancient Aliens”, right now. I think I have seen this episode, at least three times.

[BenLurkin]

antediluvian bump

[wildbill]

so am I. Love Fridays;

[wally_bert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgOc8PpP7C4

[wildbill]

loi

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

Sidebar:

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where pyramid tombs of stupendous size are full of astonishing riches. In 221 BC, China's first Emperor united warring kingdoms into a nation that still exists today. To memorialise this achievement, he bankrupted the national treasury and oppressed thousands of workers to build one of the world’s biggest mortuary complexes. China's second dynasty, the Han, inherited the daunting challenge of building larger tombs to command respect and establish their right to rule without running the nation into the ground. Although no Han emperor's tomb has been opened, the tombs of lesser Han aristocrats have revealed astonishing things: complete underground palaces (including kitchens and toilets) and at least one corpse so amazingly well-preserved some believe Han tomb-builders knew how to "engineer immortality". But most tombs were robbed, leaving another dynasty hundreds of years later – the brilliant Tang – to lead a revolution in tomb design, tunnelling simple shaft-tombs into natural mountains and filling them with small, inexpensive grave goods that symbolised more than reproduced the perfect afterlife.

China's Lost Pyramids [National Geographic]

[wildbill]

Maybe a block of apartments for the huge population would be nicer than all that effort to build a pyramid.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Building a second story on a house much less a five story, (which is all that is practical in a pre-elevator society) requires much more skill then building a step pyramid.

[wildbill]

Harmless, you really need to stop taking things so seriously.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What can I say. Old stuff is kind of my thing.