Huashan Mystery Grottoes

Artificially cut chambers in the hills east of Huangshan City, with their makers and purpose still unresolved in the cited report.

The Huashan Mystery Grottoes lie east of Huangshan City’s urban centre, on the south bank of the Xin’an River. A 2005 report describes chambers cut by people rather than natural caves and records the questions that researchers still could not settle: who made them, when, why, and where the removed stone went.

Colored lights reveal a rock-cut chamber in Huashan Mystery Grotto No. 35. — A rock-cut chamber inside Huashan Mystery Grotto No. 35, illuminated in colour.

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Huashan Mystery Grottoes: chambers without a settled story

Human-cut chambers east of Huangshan City hold evidence of labour, while their date, purpose and makers remain unsettled.

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A rock-cut chamber inside Huashan Mystery Grotto No. 35, illuminated in colour.JtWang · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Source variant is the 500-pixel standard Commons thumbnail; the only larger file shown on the Commons page is 708×533, and this package does not claim the full-resolution original. The image is a modern illuminated view, not evidence of the grottoes’ original appearance. CC BY-SA 3.0; credit JtWang; no crop or retouching.