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Mystery of the Longyou Caves

Near a small village called Shiyanbei in the Yazhou region, which sits in the middle of Zhejiang Province, China, is the Longyou Caves, a cave system like no other. Its extensive, magnificent, and rare ancient underground world is considered in China to be “the ninth wonder of the ancient world.” The Longyou Caves are thought to ...

Troy Oakes

Inside the Longyou Grotto caves in China.

The Mystery of High-Tech Tool Marks in China’s Ancient Longyou Caves

The Longyou Caves are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns located at Phoenix Hill, close to the village of Shiyan Beicun by the Qu River, Lingyou County, in China’s Zhejiang Province. The caves were discovered by local “farmers who were pumping water out of five small pools on a rough-flat ground in 1992.” These ...

Hermann Rohr