Over Chinese royal tomb, an odd room
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Chinese researchers say they have found a strange pyramid-shape chamber while surveying the huge underground tomb of China’s first emperor.
Remote sensing equipment has revealed what appears to be a 100-foot-high room above Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb near the ancient capital of Xi’an in Shaanxi province, the state-run New China News Agency reported this week. The room has not been excavated.
Because the room was built on top of Qin’s mausoleum and seems to have ladder-like steps leading up, archeologists said it might have been intended as a passageway for his spirit.
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