The Italian, Giulio Mali, spoke about why some of the tombs of the Chinese emperors have a strange deviation from the north-south line.
The ancient rulers very much "bother" with the cardinal points when building tombs. Most of them are oriented to the cardinal points. For example, the burial place of the legendary emperor Qin Shi Huang, next to whom the Terracotta Army was once discovered, is oriented strictly in the north-south direction. But some of the burials have a certain deviation, which is approximately 14 degrees. What is the reason for this?
The Italian Giulio Magli undertook to find the answer to this riddle. The researcher believes that these deviations are a kind of attempt by some emperors to show their connection with the heavens, namely with the North Star. The difference in deviations is associated with the phenomenon of precession of the earth's axis, when this axis changes its direction in space.
Most likely, during the construction of individual tombs, their architects were guided by the so-called pole of the world - the point on the celestial sphere in which the Pole Star is located. Because of the precession, this pole gradually changes its position relative to the conventional observer on Earth. Mali traced the historical change in the position of the Pole Star in the sky and claims that its extreme western point corresponds to the orientation of the burial mounds of the rulers of ancient China.
