More than 100km outside the ancient city of Xi’an , among the overgrown forests, rise scores of pyramid-shaped mounds that have been shrouded in mystery for thousands of years. The West learned about them when Fred Meyer Schroder, an American trader, first reported the enigma in 1912. At the time, he was travelling through the Shaanxi Province with a guide, where he recorded a thorough description in his diary, noting he had seen one giant pyramid approximately 1,000 feet tall and nearly twice that size in length, surrounded by a number of smaller pyramids. Trending Fast-forward three decades and […]