Pyramids of china

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Qin Shihuangdis burial mound, the first emperor of China.
Model of a Chinese pyramid.
Han Dynasty burial mounds near Xi'an - Han Yang Ling.
General's mausoleum .
Shou Qiu.

As Chinese pyramids are Chinese mausoleums referred to the shape of a pyramid or a truncated pyramid have. As a rule, these are mounds of earth that are planted with pomegranate , for example . The pyramids of Xi'an can be visited for several years. Some also have a small museum.

location

A pyramid of the Red Mountain culture in Inner Mongolia was discovered near Sijiazi in 2001 .

The mausoleum Qin Shihuangdis , the founder of the Chinese Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), is located northeast of the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province . It is a site of the famous terracotta armies.

A number of larger pyramid-shaped structures near Xi'an are the mausoleums of the emperors and empresses of the Western Han Dynasty (ruling from 207 BC to 9 AD).

Of the 18 mausoleums of emperors of the Tang dynasty (ruling from 618 to 907 AD), four are piled up in pyramid form, namely the complexes Xianling (献陵), Duanling (端 陵), Zhuangling (庄 陵) and Jingling (靖 陵).

In 2018, a 70 m high and 500 m wide pyramid was excavated in Shaanxi Province. The pyramid is estimated to be 4,300 years old and probably belongs to the ancient Chinese city of Shimao.

Notoriety in the West

In 1912, Fred Meyer Schroder and Oscar Maman reported on pyramids. The American pilot James Gaussman is said to have seen a White Pyramid in 1945 during a reconnaissance or overland flight in the Qin Ling Shan Mountains southwest of Xi'an . In 1947 Col. Maurice Sheehan saw a pyramid from an airplane; his report was published in The New York Times on March 28, 1947 . A photo was published in the New York Sunday News on March 30, 1947. Bruce Cathie looked into the subject in the 1950s and 1960s. Hartwig Hausdorf visited and photographed the pyramids in March and October 1994.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.wissenschaft.de/geschichte-archaeologie/5-000-jahre-alte-pyramide-in-der-inneren-mongolei-entdeck/
  2. ↑ http://german.china.org.cn/news/txt/2001-08/09/content_2014743.htm
  3. ↑ Jörg Dendl: The pyramids of Xian. 2007
  4. ↑ Li Jaang, Zhouyong Sun, Jing Shao, Min Li: When peripheries were centers: a preliminary study of the Shimao-centered polity in the loess highland, China. In: cambridge.org. August 22, 2018, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Philip Coppens: China's Great Pyramids Controversy. Retrieved June 26, 2008 .
  6. ↑ a b Bruce Cathie: The Bridge to Infinity. Adventures Unlimited Press, 1989
  7. ↑ http://kollektiv.org/pyramiden-in-china-neue-archaeologische-entdeckungen-im-reich-der-mitte/