cosmos-one: The Yangshan Quarry; 阳山碑材。 The Yangshan Quarry…

cosmos-one:

The Yangshan Quarry; 阳山碑材。

The Yangshan Quarry in Chinese: 阳山碑材 meaning: ‘

Yangshan Stele Material,’  is an ancient stone quarry near Nanjing, China. What can only be described as a megalithic mystery, used during many centuries as a source of stone for buildings and monuments of Nanjing. It’s now preserved a historic site. 

The quarry, famous for the gigantic unfinished steles, abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor in the early 15th century, Ming dynasty. In scope and ambition, the steles project is compared to other public work projects of Yongle era, which included the launching of the treasure fleet for Zheng He’s maritime expeditions and the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

There is nothing else like this in China it’s a total standout. It obviously had a working function, supposedly built in the 1400’s as a tomb but now suspected to be much older. Although unique in China this megalith is reminiscent of the structures we find worldwide in Egypt, Peru, Stonehenge and Easter Island.

The three unfinished stele components remain in Yangshan Quarry to this day, only partially separated from the solid rock of the mountain. The present dimensions and the usual weight estimates of the steles are as follow:

• The heaviest stone being, a stele base of (32°04′03″N 119°00′00″E), 30.35 m. long, 13 m. thick, 16 m. tall and weighing, 16,250 metric tons.

• The second stone being, a stele body of (32°04′07″N 119°00′02″E), 49.4 m. long (this would be the height, if the stele were to be properly installed), 10.7 m. wide, 4.4 m. thick and weighing, 8,799 tons.

• The third one being, a stele head of (32°04′06″N 119°00′02″E), 10.7 m. tall, 20.3 m. wide, 8.4 m. thick, weighing, 6,118 tons.

If we combine the three stones together, they will form a huge complete stele, which is 78 meters, as high as a building of 28 stories. And the weight of the huge stele would be 31.167 million kilograms. 

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