Posted on 04/25/2015 12:33:02 PM PDT by Beowulf9
MessageToEagle.com - A Mexican archeologist hunting for a royal tomb in a deep, dark tunnel beneath a towering pre-Aztec pyramid has made a discovery that may have brought him a step closer: liquid mercury,' according to Reuters' report.
In the bowels of Teotihuacan, a mysterious ancient city that was once the largest in the Americas, Sergio Gomez this month found "large quantities" of the silvery metal in a chamber at the end of a sacred tunnel sealed for nearly 1,800 years.
"It's something that completely surprised us," Gomez said at the entrance to the tunnel below Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Plumed Serpent, about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Mexico City.
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No solid gold statue? I’m disappointed! ;)
Hunt for ancient royal tomb in Mexico takes mercurial twist
BY DAVID ALIRE GARCIA
reuters
April 24, 2015
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/04/24/mexico-archeology-teotihuacan-idINKBN0NF1UU20150424
Maybe the mercury is the king.
That is really interesting. They found mercury in the tomb of a Chinese emperor too. I don’t remember his name. I think they have yet to get inside that one.
I wish they had given some figure for “large quantities” in this article. Also what kind of vessel was it contained in? Or was it not contained?
Reminiscent of the tomb of the first Chinese emperor, who supposedly has lakes and rivers of mercury in it. I can’t wait till they open that one up.
Funny that the Reuters source news article makes no mention of a “sacred” tunnel. Guess they didn’t get the memo that any ancient artifact determined not to be of Jewish or early Christian origin is “sacred”, while the latter are merely old.
Mercury eh....I hope they get signed off from the EPA before doing it.
I think the Progressives are moving into a more openly Stalinistic phase where any suggestion of religion or spirituality whatsoever will be mocked or ignored. They are preparing us for their Brave New World where only science (mostly junk science) and political policy is to be believed.
No.. it won’t..
Yet more evidence those dang CFL bulbs and the environmental movement completely destroyed yet another ancient civilization!
Vimanas were powered with liquid mercury....
Maybe the south american civs were founded by Indian Subcontinent refugees....?
There has long been rumors of a vast underground city under the Aztec capitol. J. Frank Dobie wrote of it in his book APACHE GOLD AND YAQUI SILVER.
LEW WALLACE, who wrote BEN HUR, also wrote a novel of the Spanish in Mexico, THE FAIR GOD in which the underground city plays a part.
This book was supposed to be made into a movie back around 1964 by Warner Brothers. It was never made.
Teotehuacan, as you may know, predates the Aztecs by hundreds of years. It was so old that even the Aztecs were clueless as to who built it. The Aztecs get all of the credit for the Mexican civilizations, even though they were latecomers to central Mexico.
I visited Teotehuacan some 40 years ago. Still have some sharp obsidian “razor blades” I dug out of one of the unrestored mounds. The best part was climbing the two big pyramids, huffing and puffing to find a ten year old kid selling cold bottles of Coke. Then realizing he had hauled up the soda and ice himself.
Thanks, that’s the dude. lol
I hope that some day they can explore that tomb more but I can appreciate that they want to do it carefully and preserve it as much as possible.
The fascination with mercury is understandable. It is interesting to me that cultures around the world discovered it and spent resources mining and refining it.
Thanks SteveH and TigersEye for the pings.
Even the spillage of a few milligrams of mercury like that found in a compact florescent light bulb is enough to create a neurological health hazard because of mercury vapor.
“If and when a CFL bulb breaks in a person’s residence or place of work— an almost inevitability at some point— the bulb will release at least 25,000 ng/m3 to 100,000 ng/m3 (nanograms per meter cubed) of invisible, microscopic, particles of mercury vapor directly into the immediate indoor environment. (The U.S. safety level for mercury vapor exposure is 200 ng/m3.)”
http://www.examiner.com/article/compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-health-hazards-pt-1-mercury-vapor
Maybe exposure to all this mercury is what wiped them out.
Anyone know what they would have used it for?
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