China is not generally know for pyramids, so any discovery of one in that country is a mystery. When the pyramid is a fraction of the size of those in Egypt and dates to the prosperous Silk Road period, the mystery deepens. Construction workers in Zhengzhou in the Henan province recently discovered a mini pyramid approximately six feet tall situated in a large burial chamber. The search for its origin is strangely controversial. According to local media translated by others, the workers were excavating for a residential structure next to a road near the Yellow River. When they discovered the artifacts, they called in archeologists from the Zhengzhou Cultural Relics Bureau to determine what they found. The mini pyramid is a tomb, one of two in the chamber (the other is similar in size but shaped like a half-cylinder) in what appears to be a burial chamber measuring 100 feet (30 meters) long and 26 feet (8 meters) wide. After digging for a month to uncover the brick mini pyramid and