Chinese Pyramids
One of the oldest and largest pyramids in the world is found in Tibet - the White Pyramid,
located in the Qin Ling Shan mountains, about100 km southwest of the city of Xi'an,
in the People's Republic of China. It is reported to be about 300 meters high.
Life Magazine had a picture of this Tibetan Pyramid taken in 1957. The
first picture to be seen here was taken from a C-54 in world war II by a pilot
who flew supplies through the Himalaya Mountain terran as a volunteer helping
the Chinese.
Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany, sent over photographs from his
collection, taken during his 1994 trip to the Forbidden Zone in The Shensi
Province in China.
Estimates for an age are 4,500 years old. Hausdorf mentions the diaries of
two Australian traders who, in 1912, met an old Buddhist monk who told them
these pyramids are mentioned in the 5,000 year old records of his monastery as
being "very old."
Hausdorf reports: There are over 100 pyramids, made of clay, that have become
nearly stone hard over the centuries. Many are damaged by erosion or farming.
One pyramid is as large as the Pyramid of the Sun of Teotihuacan in Mexico
(which is as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza). Most are flat topped, some
have small temples on top. There is a stone pyramid in Shandong, about 50 feet
tall. Some incorporate the golden proportion.
These images were taken by Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany.
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