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Experts Doubt Russian Find of Pyramids in Tibet
Chinese experts say they doubt that Russian scientists have discovered pyramids on Kangrinboqe Mountain in Tibet.
More likely, the Russians mistook mountains shaped like pyramids to be pyramids, they said.
A group of Russian scientists said when they journeyed up the 6,656-metre-high Kangrinboqe, the highest peak in the Gangdise Range, in August, September and October of last year, they found more than 100 pyramids and many cultural relics.
But Yang Yichou, a geographer with the Institute of Geography under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said geological movements have caused Kangrinboqe Mountain and other nearby mountains to have a stair-like appearance.
Coupled with wind erosion, the mountains might be shaped like pyramids.
Yang said the Russian scientists did not provide any archaeological evidence to substantiate their discovery.
"More importantly, the pyramid shape of the mountains were created naturally,while pyramids are one of the greatest masterpieces created by human beings," Yang said.
Du Yongbin, a historian with the Chinese Centre for Tibetan Studies in Beijing, said all the historical documents on Tibet, both in Tibetan and Chinese, do not ever mention pyramids.
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