Pyramids of China are huge burial mounds of carefully pressed earth reminiscent of the structures of Latin America. They are also built built terraces, have steps up to the top, mostly time-resolved and overgrown with wood.

They are squat Egyptian and look much less spectacular. But the dimensions inspire awe: for example, the base area of ​​the Maoling pyramid is 57.6 thousand square meters, and the height is 50 meters. And this is taking into account that the land sags, in the past the mound was almost 2 times higher. A little less (the base is 230 by 220 meters) the Kanlin pyramid near Sanyan.

There are a lot of burial pyramids in China. Most tourists visit a complex of burials near Xian, where the unique Terracotta Army was found and is still kept. There is also a giant pyramid of China's first emperor Qin Shihuang-di with a base area of ​​122.5 thousand square meters. And there are pyramids of the emperor and Empress Jing-di (Yanglin complex), the Emperor Xuan-di and his wife (Doolin complex), the round mounds of the Shisanling complex, of which the Yongle barrow stands out, and many others.