Chinas Lost Pyramids

In China there exists an astonishing place A burial ground to rival Egypts Valley of the Kings where pyramid tombs of stupendous size are full of astonishing riches In 221 BC Chinas first Emperor united warring kingdoms into a nation that still exists today To memorialise this achievement he bankrupted the national treasury and oppressed thousands of workers to build one of the worlds biggest mortuary complexes Chinas second dynasty the Han inherited the daunting challenge of building larger tombs to command respect and establish their right to rule without running the nation into the ground Although no Han emperors tomb has been opened the tombs of lesser Han aristocrats have revealed astonishing things complete underground palaces including kitchens and toilets and at least one corpse so amazingly wellpreserved some believe Han tombbuilders knew how to engineer immortality