Chinese Pyramid: Excavation Now
Many tourists in China have seen the terracota warriors and been told that the nearby tree-covered hill is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Tourists are unaware, and Chinese authorities have refused to admit that the “tomb” is actually one of the largest pyramids in the world. Legend has it that:
“plans for the tomb included flowing rivers of mercury, cross-bow booby traps to thwart would-be plunderers, and replicas of the Emperor’s earthly palaces.”
It reads like a work of extreme fantasy. Sima Qian reports that 700,000 workers were employed to burrow through three rivers, and fill the space with bronze. Then artisans apparently carved a map of the entire Qin kingdom on the floor, laced the ceiling with jewels to represent to sky, and created rivers and oceans with quicksilver – that is, liquid mercury (which was widely believed to have life-preserving powers in Qin times). A special machine was even apparently conceived to keep the mercury rivers flowing.
Strong traces of mercury have already been found, and now for the first time in almost 25 years further excavations at the site have begun!
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I have read of these pyramids. There have also been upwards of 7 pyramids discovered in eastern europe i can’t recall which country, but one of them is the biggest in the world. I have a feeling that there will be pyramid found all over the world, in fact i believe i live right next to one here in NYS.