Remote Por-Bajin still keeps its secrets
Posted On: Oct 20th, 2015 at 14:37
Russia
Reporting on the amazing Por-Bajin site here quite some time back, archaeologists still have no idea what it was used for, but the latest idea is that it may have been a summer palace for a Chinese princess.
Built around 770 AD, the site had walls ten metres high and twelve metres thick. Obviously built to stop access to any unwanted visitors, the location is so remote that it’s unlikely anyone who wasn’t supposed to be there ever arrived in the first place.
The site is so weird that archaeological evidence has proven that no one ever lived in the palace, but evidence also shows that the palace was maintained and received repairs to damaged buildings, at least up to a decade after it was completed.
Maybe it was built for the souls of the dead?
