Great pyramids of China


	Great pyramids of China

invictus

8-21-2007 9:05 AM

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china, pyramids, archaeology, google earth

invictus says:

Try and see if you can spot some of them using Google Earth.

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9-13-2007 3:28 PM

pandadoo

cool

9-13-2007 4:49 PM

skwirlinator

This is awesome

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