Great pyramids of China


	Great pyramids of China

invictus

8-21-2007 9:05 AM

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china, pyramids, archaeology, google earth

invictus says:

Try and see if you can spot some of them using Google Earth.

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9-13-2007 3:28 PM

pandadoo

cool

9-13-2007 4:49 PM

skwirlinator

This is awesome

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4580dcd1-1543-44e0-84f2-dafeb02863d0/1312E96E-EE1A-4473-BCDE-002B212CA5EC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/" href="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/" style="font-size: 11px;">googlesightseeing.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/"><P>Legend tells us that near the city of Xi’an, China, there lies a <STRONG>gigantic white pyramid</STRONG> - far larger than any <A href="http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/06/22/pyramids-of-giza-the-great-sphinx/">Egyptian pyramid</A> - that has remained undiscovered for millennia. The story goes that this pyramid is encased in “pure shimmering stone” and “capped with an enormous jewel”…</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/"><P>Despite decades of denial by archaeologists and bureaucrats, the surprising truth of the matter is that whilst no <EM>white</EM> pyramid has so far been found here - there <STRONG>are</STRONG> <A href="http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1530&c=&f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=34.363219,108.630538&spn=0.003326,0.007145&z=18">pyramids in China</A>!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/googlesightseeing.com/img/95252960-E485-4FDD-92C6-6F08A0F0C2BE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/googlesightseeing.com/img/F8D17BAF-0535-4A73-B231-9625C8CB788F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/08/20/the-great-white-pyramid-of-china/"><P>Believed to be the burial places of various emperors and generals, there are loads<SUP id="fnref:1"><A rel="footnote" href="#fn:1">1</A></SUP> of these tombs scattered all over this plain. 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