Xi'an, area of the majority of Chinese pyramids.

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Recognition in the West

The existence of pyramids in China has come in two stages. Most early stories were focused on the existence of "Great White Pyramid." A photograph of this pyramid in the Qinling mountains was taken by Americans in 1945, but remained in military files for 45 years. US Air Force pilot James Gaussman is said to have seen a white jewel-topped pyramid during a flight between India and China during World War II, but there is scant evidence for a source on this story. However, it is now believed that the Gaussman story was actually based on Colonel Maurice Sheahan, Far Eastern director of Trans World Airlines, who told an eyewitness account of his encounter with a pyramid in the March 28, 1947 edition of The New York Times. A photo of Sheahan's pyramid appeared in The New York Sunday News on March 30, 1947. It is this photograph that later became attributed to James Gaussman. 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Trans World Airlines (IATA: TW, ICAO: TWA, and Callsign: TWA), commonly known as TWA, was an American airline company that was acquired by American Airlines in April 2001. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (90th in leap years). ...

It is now known, thanks to efforts of Chris Maier, that the particular pyramid shown in the photo is the Maoling Mausoleum of emperor Wu of Han, just outside of Xi'an. (A Great White Pyramid such as described by Sheahan has not been found.) In 1994, German tour operator and author Hartwig Hausdorf was noted for photographing and studying several pyramids. He drew attention to the structures' existence with his 1994 book Die Weisse Pyramide, the subject of an article in Nexus Magazine in 1995 by Philip Coppens, later translated into English under the revised title The Chinese Roswell (1998). Emperor Wu of Han (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), (156 BC[1]–March 29, 87 BC), personal name Liu Che (劉徹), was the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty in China, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC. Emperor Wu is best remembered for the vast territorial expansion that occurred under... Xian (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsi-An; Postal System Pinyin: Sian), is the capital of Shaanxi province in China and a sub-provincial city. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Nexus magazine is a magazine containing many alternative and conspiracy theorist articles. ... Philip Coppens (January 25, 1971-) started his career as an investigative journalist, with specialist subject the world of politics and intelligence agencies. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...

The pyramids of Xi'an can now be visited on trips from Xi'an and no longer are located in "forbidden zones". Several pyramids have small museums attached to them.

List of Chinese pyramids

• Inner Mongolian pyramid (1 kilometer north of Sijiazi Town, Aohan County)
• Maoling Mausoleum
• Pyramid of Gathering (Tibet)
• Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum
• Zangkunchong Step Pyramid (Ziban)

Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་; Wylie: Bod; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西藏, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zàng; also referred to as 藏区 (Simplified Chinese), 藏區 (Traditional Chinese), ZàngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigenous home to the Tibetan people. ... The monarch known now as Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chin Shih-huang) (November / December 260 BCE – September 10, 210 BCE), personal name Ying Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BCE to 221 BCE (officially still under the Zhou Dynasty), and then...

See also

• Ancient mysteries

Known Pyramids of Other Cultures Kirchers 1669 map of Atlantis. ...

• Egyptian pyramids
• French pyramids
• Mesoamerican pyramids
• Nubian pyramids

Reported Pyramids The Great Sphinx of Giza with Khafres pyramid in the background. ... // The Falicons pyramid The Falicons pyramid was build above the karstic Cave of the Bats (Occitan: Bauma des Ratapignata) on the surrounds of Nice, on the French Riviera. ... Most Ancient Mesoamerican civilisations built pyramid-shaped structures. ... Aerial view of the pyramids at Meroe. ...

• Ukrainian pyramids - Archaeological dig site falsely reported as a pyramid in 2006
• Bosnian pyramids - Also known as Visočica hill

Archaeologists in Ukraine claim to have discovered an ancient pyramidal structure that predates those in Egypt by at least 300 years. ... Visočica overlooking Visoko, photo taken in 1973 Visočica overlooking Visoko, today A site known as Visočica hill, in the Bosnia-Herzegovina town of Visoko, northwest of Sarajevo, became the focus of international attention in October 2005, following highly controversial claims that it is actually an ancient man...

External links

• Video of the pyramids seen from space
• China's Great Pyramids Controversy
• EarthQuest - Pyramids of China
• People's Daily - Inner Mongolian pyramid
• UnexplainedEarth: China's Lost Pyramids
• Google map of the pyramids

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