Chinese "Tomb" of Emperor Qin Shihuang - A Pyramid

In Science magazine, (Vol 325, pages 22-23), I was amazed to read what is perhaps the most mundane description of a pyramid ever:

Soon after Qin took power, he began preparing for the afterlife. Construction of his mausoleum at Mount Li, 35 kilometers east of Xi'an, took 38 years. The mausoleum, once crowned with pavilions, was never a secret, and even today it is visible as a kilometer-long wooded mound that rises a gentle 75 meters above the surrounding land.

And here is the mausoleum that gently rises 75 meters:



The above image is from the People's Daily Online. It is a refreshing change from the hill we usually see:



That the Chinese pyramids are in fact pyramids has been very under-investigated. Pyramids in Egypt and Americas have been argued to be a coincidence. How many more do we need before orthodox archaeologists consider that a common culture created them all?

Samoa, Indonesia, Central America, Egypt, China, Bosnia, Chile... can't be a coincidence!

Obama Visits Egyptian Pyramids

There has been plenty of discussion at the 2012 Forum regarding Obama not being all that he seems - more of a charismatic puppet for the Illuminati et al, less of a socialist hero.

Consequently I find it interesting that he has paid a visit to the Giza pyramids. It could just be that he figured he'd take a look around while he was there. Or does he have a deeper interest, one that may be a factor in 2012? Pure speculation of course.

The visit followed Obama's speech to the Islamic world from Cairo University. Zawi Hawass said:

"This is the longest official visit to the pyramids, at around 75 minutes. Almost every official visiting Cairo travels to the pyramids, which rise up from the desert outside the Egyptian capital.

Pyramids Made From Concrete

I'm a partial fan of this idea, because it is such a simple solution that anyone can understand. A new set of researchers are backing the idea the Giza pyramids are made from concrete:

A handful of determined materials scientists are carrying out experiments with crushed limestone and natural binding chemicals - stuff that would have been readily available to ancient Egyptians - designed to show that blocks on the upper reaches of the pyramids may have been cast in place from a slurry poured into wooden moulds.

Unanswered are questions like the quarries where the blocks were cut from... why they made such big blocks... how all the other pyramids on Earth were made... The story is also told at the Boston Globe.


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Giza Pyramids Mimic Cygnus, Not Orion?

Dr. Greg Little sums things up nicely:

...in a 2006 and 2007 book, The Cygnus Mystery, science writer Andrew Collins showed how the three crossbar stars of the northern constellation of Cygnus actually fit the three pyramids better than Orion's Belt. In fact, the fitting of Cygnus onto the three pyramids doesn't require turning either the sky or the world upside down (as the Orion idea requires), and Cygnus is a near-perfect match with the pyramids. Collins has also shown that key stars of Cygnus were actually visible above the three large pyramids when viewed from the southeast from the sacred mound of Gebel Ghibli. If the Cygnus alignment had been proposed before the Orion idea, the Cygnus alignment at Giza would have been the accepted one.

I'm sold.

Furthermore, there is a theory that the little pyramids indicate Orion, and its relative change in position from ancient times to the near future:

...where the three stars of Orion's Belt were starting in 10,550 BC, known as The First Time. This alignment is to the southwest. The precession wheel cycle ends in AD 2400 when Orion's Belt will be in the East, mimicked by the three small pyramids off the Great Pyramid.

Tonga: Megaliths in the Birthplace of Polynesia

Simon Fraser University's David Burley says his latest finds from the Nukuleka archeological site on one of Tonga's southern islands shows it was the principal "founding settlement" of Polynesia about 2,800 years ago, and endured long enough for a genetically and culturally distinctive people to evolve and begin spreading across the immense "Polynesian triangle" bounded by Hawaii in the north, New Zealand in the southwest and fabled Easter Island in the far southeast, not far from the coast of South America.

So you'd expect Tonga to have a pyramid or ancient structures of some type. Like Tonga-Tabu, 2 pillars 4.88 meters high, weighing approx. 50 tons, supporting a 5.79 meter lintel:



And don't forget the "burial mounds" which are actually short step pyramids using megalithic blocks:





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