A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacán

A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacán
The chance discovery beneath a nearly 2,000-year-old pyramid leads to the heart of a lost civilization
Source: smithsonianmag.com

This is a very long article, it covers not only this latest discovery but earlier tunnels as well.




Teotihuacán's ceremonial city center, avenue of the dead, and tunnel location, Temple of the Plumed Serpent.

originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacán
The chance discovery beneath a nearly 2,000-year-old pyramid leads to the heart of a lost civilization
Source: smithsonianmag.com

This is a very long article, it covers not only this latest discovery but earlier tunnels as well.

Teotihuacán's ceremonial city center, avenue of the dead, and tunnel location, Temple of the Plumed Serpent.

Just going to take a read but a more detailed description would help maybe?

a reply to: Bipolarised

Just going to take a read but a more detailed description would help maybe?

Tunnel found. Links pyramid. Cool stuff in tunnel.

a reply to: Blackmarketeer

New threads are supposed to have a short paragraph or two from the op about why its being started, about it and your feelings.

All you said was its long, making many just pass it by...as the 1st posted to you replied...and asked for.

Thanks....MS

PS If its about the mercury or silica found in them...its old news from last year....so....thanks again.

Hopefully, more readers would read up if it was more detailed by description...as suggested by ATS.

a reply to: mysterioustranger

more readers would read up if it was more detailed by description

Yep, thats got me and many others written all over it.
A brief overview is always extremely useful, especially if it's as long as you make it out to be. Not everyone has the time to go through a large piece of text so having a brief description informs people if it is something they might be interested in coming back to and reading at another point.

However, I will be reading anyway as curiosity is killing my cat...

Don't read the full article, its a traaaap..........

a reply to: Blackmarketeer

Pretty good read, for sure...and the best (or worst, depending on your expectations) is that they haven't even excavated the farthest reaches of the tunnel, yet, where there may lie even more interesting finds.

Really cool!

What a painstaking process...

a reply to: constant_thought

The idea isnt mine. Its in the directions from the Admins/Mods to maintain a certain minimal quality and quantity of definition when creating new threads.

Not everyone can nor will read it now. It helps to define a thread and the o.p.'s hopes a majority of members and non-members alike will read/watch the videos of the information.

Some can't technically and where they are (like work), and now, some won't.

Thanks..MS

originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
Tunnel found. Links pyramid. Cool stuff in tunnel.

Atzecs had some crazy religion they were all into before they vanished.

a reply to: Blue Shift

Teotihuacan predates the Aztecs by over 1000 years. The city was founded sometime around 300 BCE and had been long abandoned when the Aztec first stumbled across it nearly 1600 years later.

originally posted by: Blue Shift

originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
Tunnel found. Links pyramid. Cool stuff in tunnel.

Atzecs had some crazy religion they were all into before they vanished.

The Aztecs didn't vanish, any more than the Cherokee or Sioux did. They did get overrun by the Spaniards, however.

a reply to: peter vlar

can i get some text on this? im interested in reading up a little more on the area. Im pretty familiar with the story the Aztec tell of the cities founding, but not so much with archeological record, etc.

They found this tunnel years ago, and ahve been excavating it for what seems an eternity.

IT would be nice if they could get a move on and actually find out what, if anything, is down there.

I get the feeling it's being deliberately drawn out.

a reply to: Blackmarketeer

The tunnel story is on PBS this Tuesday at 9:00 pm in the U.S. "Secrets of the Dead" will be about the tunnels called "The Lost KIngs of Teotihuacan".

THIRTEEN's "Secrets of the Dead Teotihuacán's Lost Kings ...
www.bizjournals.com/newyork/prnewswire/press_releases/New_York/...

May 04, 2016 · THIRTEEN's "Secrets of the Dead Teotihuacán's Lost Kings" Explores Hidden Chambers Beneath an Ancient Mexican City Tuesday, May 24, at 9 p.m. on PBS.

originally posted by: Painterz
I get the feeling it's being deliberately drawn out.

To what end? You do realize that proper excavation and documentation takes a long time, right?