What Scientists Found Inside China s Sealed Pyramid Has Shocked the Entire World

What scientists found inside China's sealed pyramids—rivers of mercury and tombs aimed at stars that didn't exist yet—has stunned the world.

More than 200 pyramids stand across the plains of China near the old capital of Xi'an, some taller than a 15-story building, squared to the compass and grown over with grass. Almost every one remains sealed, never opened by deliberate choice. Chief among them is the tomb of the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang—where the ancient historian Sima Qian described a floor of flowing mercury shaped into the rivers and seas of the empire. Two generations of scientists, decades apart, walked the sealed mound and measured mercury in the soil up to 70 times normal, its distribution broadly matching the geography of China itself. An ancient account, put to the test, that did not crumble.
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