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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/
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday July 07 2017, @05:05PM (4 children)
I seem to recall reading the Greeks did this kind of stuff too, but I don't remember the details.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:08PM (2 children)
Let's ask aristarchus, he's old enough to have been there.
(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday July 07 2017, @09:48PM (1 child)
You may be thinking of the Tunnel of Eupalinos [wikipedia.org] on Samos. But it was an aqueduct, carrying water through a mountain into the walled city. Nothing to do with afterlife, or escaping. And, it was dug in the 6th Century BCE, so some three hundred years before my time.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @10:31PM
Oh dear, I had hoped you were the younger Aristarchus of Samothrace [wikipedia.org]: librarian at Alexandria, grammarian, critic, curmudgeon, and perfect likeness of Sarek of Vulcan [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday July 07 2017, @06:09PM
Necromanteion [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford