Intriguing discoveries in underground rooms under the old pyramid of Quetzalcoatl of Mexico have re -prepared speculation about the original purpose of the structure.
Located in the old town of Teotihuacan, built around 1800-1900 years ago, this pyramid of the feathered snake has long been a central point of different theories, including the idea that it served as an old power source.
Earlier, researchers found liquid mercury filling rooms at the end of a 100-meter-plus-plus underground tunnel, so some of them believed that the disappeared Teotihuacan civilization considered the temple to the supernatural.
Mexican researcher Sergio Gomez suggested That the reflective nature of mercury, related to water and mirrors, led the old inhabitants to use these Polish as portals for the Divine or Underworld, possibly for a Meso -American ruler.
Despite the decade since the discovery of the tunnel, the interest remains high. A more unconventional theory that gets a grip in conspiracy theorists suggests that the pyramid has housed advanced technology, whereby the findings of mercury and mica are the remains of this refined system.
It is important that together with the liquid mercury, sheets of Mica, a shiny silicate mineral that is known for its insulating properties, are also dug in the pyramid.
The Gomez team initially interpreted these materials as part of an extensive ritual. However, this statement does not have the ones who suggested that the combined materials have formed essential components of a power-generating device within the structure.
The presence of liquid mercury is exceptionally rare in old structures, with the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor in China the only other well -known pyramid that contains it. Prior to the discovery of Teotihuacan, only traces of liquid mercury were found on a few OLMEC and Maya locations in Mesoamerica.
Mica, on the other hand, was found in Teotihuacan, with considerable quantities in the pyramid of the sun and the tunnel under the pyramid of the feathered snake.
Annabeth Hedrick, a Meso -Maaman cultures specialist at the University of Denver, notes the ritual significance of reflective materials: “Mirrors were seen as a way to look in the supernatural world, they were a way to predict what could happen in the future. Many ritual objects were made reflective with the help of helping.”
Adding the mystery is the distant origin of the mica, with one of the primary sources near Teotihuacan in Brazil, about 4,500 miles away.
In addition, the absence of liquid mercury in its natural state implies that residents of Teotihuacan have undertaken a complex and dangerous process to extract it from Cinnabar, a kwiksulfides, by heating and then the challenge of transporting the toxic liquid in the pyrammed depth.
Silence theorists also point to the lack of an identified ruler of Teotihuacan and the absence of a royal burial room in the city.
This absence feeds their speculation that the mica and mercury were components of an early mechanical energy device, constructed centuries before the invention of the first power plant.
