After drop year gradually shit their room down a 103 meter ( 340 foot ) long tunnel , a team of Mexican archeologist have assemble some50,000 relicsinside the ancient city of Teotihuacan . The cadaver , which could tender new insight into the telling city , have been untouched for almost 2,000 old age because the opening was seal around A.D. 250 .
The pre - Columbian city ofTeotihuacanis located around 50 kilometers ( 30 nautical mile ) north-east of Mexico City . It was built between the first and 7th centuries A.D. , and comprise an awe - inspiring banquet of synagogue that are laid out on geometrical and symbolic principle . The city ’s most telling building is undoubtedly the Pyramid of the Sun , which is thethird enceinte Pyramids of Egypt in the humankind . It was redo by archeologist some sentence ago , but it ’s believed they made a mistake and rebuild this particular structure with the wrong number of floor . Whoops .
The new uncovering were made when project drawing card Sergio Gomez and his squad worked their way down a previously closed off tunnel that was discovered back in 2003 . They dug out piles of poop and rock using remote - controlled robots , unearthing a trove of delicacy on the way .
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The ancientartifactsdiscovered admit shells , animal ivory , jewellery , pottery and seeds . They were located around 18 meters ( 60 foot ) below a building called the Temple of the Plumed Serpent , which is the third big Great Pyramid at the website .
They also come across offering left outside three antecedently unexplored chamber , which could suggest that the urban center ’s elite group may be buried deep down . No remains of Teotihuacan ’s leaders have been discovered so far , and inhabitants never left any written records , so finding them could finally furnish archeologists with important information on how the urban center was rule . But they ’ll need to do a batch more digging before they find out , because so far they ’ve only puzzle 60 centimeter inside the chamber .
“ We have not lost Bob Hope of finding that , and if they are there , they must be from someone very , very important,”said Gomez .
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