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Mystery building found in China's first emperor's tomb
Chinese archeologists have recently made a valuable founding of a 30 meters' high building'( as they put it) in China's first emperor's Mausoleum in the suburbs of Xian, one of China's seven ancient capitals in North China.
The Mausoleum of China's first imperial emperor, historically called Qinshihuang keeps unexcavated, partly due to lack of sophisticated technology.
China has launched programs since 2002 using a combination of the remote sensing technology and physical geography to explore and research the tomb structure and its inside contents with an aim to make preparation for the future excavation.
According to a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, the building, buried above the 51-meter-high, pyramid-shaped main tomb had four surrounding stair-like walls with nine steps each.
The building is supposed to construct for the soul of the emperor to depart.
The first emperor unified China in 221 BC and his Terra Cotta Army buried in pits near to mausoleum to guard his afterlife has become an internationally known attraction since it was unearthed in 1978 by farmers who were digging a well.
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