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posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 07 2017, @04:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-split-up dept.

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An underground tunnel that archaeologists believe was meant to imitate the underworld has been found under a pyramid at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Electrical scans taken at the ancient city revealed the extent of the mysterious tunnel.

"The finding confirms that Teotihuacans reproduced the same pattern of tunnels associated with their great monuments, whose function had to be the emulation of the underworld," archaeologist Veronica Ortega, who was involved in the discovery, said in a statement1.

[...] " The function of the tunnel may have been to reproduce the underworld, a world where life, animals and plants originated. It's possible that it was used purely for rituals, as part of ceremonies to celebrate the agricultural cycles," Ortega said.

1 In Spanish.

Source: https://www.rt.com/viral/395523-mexican-pyramid-underworld-tunnel/


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @04:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @04:46PM (#536170)

    Discovery of prior art proves Boring Company innovated nothing.

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