Teotihuacan ruins explored by robot

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Teotihuacan ruins explored by robot

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The first robotic exploration of a pre-Hispanic ruin in Mexico has revealed that a 2,000-year-old tunnel under a temple at the famed Teotihuacan ruins has a perfectly carved arch roof and appears stable enough to enter, archaeologists announced Wednesday.
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In a follow up on exploration at Teotihuacan.
Teotihuacán maintained alternatively hostile and friendly relationships with neighboring Maya cities. As Matthew Shaer reported for Smithsonian magazine in 2016, a fire, possibly set by an enemy army, razed much of the city in 550, and by 750, it had been all but abandoned. Today, the city’s ruins are a Unesco World Heritage site, with the Temple of Quetzalcoatl surviving as one of its most impressive features, along with the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon.

The tunnel where the new finds were made was discovered in 2003 after a rainstorm opened a sinkhole near the temple. Since then, researchers have found thousands of artifacts at the site, including cocoa beans, obsidian and animal remains. As Paul Laity reported for the Guardian in 2017, the team also discovered a miniature landscape with tiny mountains and lakes made of liquid mercury. The tunnel’s walls were decorated with pyrite, or fool’s gold, which reflected firelight to create the illusion of a sky dotted with stars.
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How cool is that?

I'm fascinated by the interplay among the cultures in Mexico and those in the American Southwest at about the same time. The Pueblo Bonito ruin at Chaco Canyon had a room devoted to macaws and another devoted to chocolate drinking vessels -- both of which had to have been imported from Mexico.
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