2,000-year-old flower offerings found under Teotihuacan pyramid in Mexico ... The bouquets had survived a bonfire.

https://www.livescience.com ^ | AUGUST 24, 2021 | By Owen Jarus

[Red Badger]

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the ancient people of Teotihuacan wrapped bunches of flowers into beautiful bouquets, laid them beneath a jumble of wood and set the pile ablaze. Now, archaeologists have found the remains of those surprisingly well-preserved flowers in a tunnel snaking beneath a pyramid of the ancient city, located northeast of what is now Mexico City.

The pyramid itself is immense, and would have stood 75 feet (23 meters) tall when it was first built, making it taller than the Sphinx of Giza from ancient Egypt. The Teotihuacan pyramid is part of the "Temple of the Feathered Serpent," which was built in honor of Quetzalcoatl, a serpent god who was worshipped in Mesoamerica.

Archaeologists found the bouquets 59 feet (18 m) below ground in the deepest part of the tunnel, said Sergio Gómez-Chávez, an archaeologist with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) who is leading the excavation of the tunnel. Numerous pieces of pottery, along with a sculpture depicting Tlaloc, a god associated with rainfall and fertility, were found beside the bouquets, he added.

The bouquets were likely part of rituals, possibly associated with fertility, that Indigenous people performed in the tunnel, Gómez-Chávez told Live Science in a translated email. The team hopes that by determining the identity of the flowers, they can learn more about the rituals.

[Red Badger]

A bouquet of flowers found in a tunnel under a Teotihuacan pyramid survived a bonfire about 2,000 years ago. (Image credit: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)/Sergio Gómez)

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!..........................

[alexander_busek]

The blush is off the rose...

Regards,

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[Fred Nerks]

Pyramids and concealed tunnel burials, in both Egypt and Central America, separated in time by millenia. Makes one wonder...doesn't it?

Teotihuacan Mural

[Varda]

Back when I studied that area, they didn’t know who built that city. It looks like they still don’t know.

The “flower” offering doesn’t look like that to me. The bundle has a root ball like what you would have when you transplant something.

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan

[Varda]

That's a good summary that boils down to , they still don't know.
Maybe it was built as a multi-ethnic society as some speculation suggests. The Romans did it. It could have been done there.
I climbed the Pyramid of the Moon as a kid. My parents thought the Pyramid of the Sun was too much of a hike.

[Red Badger]

Well, according to the Mormons, the Jews built it.............

[Grammy]

I live in the woods, and my back deck is on a hill. There is one spot off the deck where I have always dumped my dead flower bouquets. I figured that in thousands of years they will dig this place up and decide that spot was an altar.