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Weiße Pyramide

People's Republic of China

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Unter der Bezeichnung weiße Pyramide wird von Parawissenschaftlern über die Existenz einer bisher unentdeckten Pyramide in Zentralchina spekuliert. Archäologische Belege für die Existenz der Pyramide liegen nicht vor.

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The Weiße Pyramide is a proposed, undiscovered pyramid in central China, southwest of Xi’an in the Qin-Ling-Shan region. It is known only from an account attributed to the US-American pilot James Gaussman in 1945. No archaeological evidence for the pyramid has been found.

Gaussman described a gigantic white pyramid in a level valley, estimating its height at 300 metres and its side length at 400 to 450 metres. He said that it appeared pure white on all sides, with a large capstone of jewel-like material that might have been crystal. The report was probably based on an account by Maurice Sheahan published in the New York Times on 28 March 1947.

A photograph first published in the New York Sunday News on 30 March 1947 has since been linked with both Gaussman and Sheahan. Mark and Richard Wells identified the structure shown as the Maoling-Grabhügel, whose base is about 190 by 190 metres. The flat landscape and visible erosion in the photograph do not match Gaussman’s description of a regular white pyramid at the end of a long valley.

Around Xi’an are many pyramid-shaped mounds serving as imperial tombs of the Han-Dynastie. The largest nearby structure is the Mausoleum Qin Shihuangdis, east of Lintong, with a base length of 350 metres and an estimated height of 200 metres. Some proponents of the Weiße Pyramide connect it with extraterrestrial intelligences, while Hartwig Hausdorf suggests that it remains hidden in an inaccessible military exclusion zone.

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Weiße Pyramide is a other / unclassified in People's Republic of China. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Weiße Pyramide (China)", shown in the original language.