Researchers open secret cave under Mexican pyramid

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Researchers open secret cave under Mexican pyramid — well, it used to be secret, a long time ago:

Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization’s largest cities.

The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site about an hour outside Mexico City, were discovered by the ancient Aztecs around 1500 AD, not long before the arrival of Spanish explorers to Mexico.

But little is known about the civilization that built the immense city, with its ceremonial architecture and geometric temples, and then torched and abandoned it around 700 AD.

It sounds to me like they summoned an unspeakable evil and did not know how to kill it, so they buried it deep within the earth. Right? Occam’s Razor, and all that…

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