Tunnel might provide insight into pre-Hispanic culture

Teotihuacan is a site in Mexico that has seen nearly a century's worth of archaeological exploration, and still very little understanding of the culture and civilization that flourished there. The city itself may have housed as many as 100,000 people, and by the time the Aztecs found it in the 1300s, it was already deserted. One of the central mysteries that remains is the identity of it's rulers. Virtually nothing is known about them, and several expeditions have hoped to turn up the burial sites of these rulers and returned empty handed. This is most peculiar in light of the fact that they are the only pre-Hispanic civilization that deified their rulers, and did not have so much as a depiction of these rulers.

Recently though, the ground began to sink at the foot of the Temple of Quetzacoatl, leading researchers to dig there. After eight months, it has finally been confirmed to be a tunnel that may very well lead to an underground complex of burial chambers answering these questions once and for all. However, it will be another two months of digging before these tunnels are ready to be entered by archaeologists.

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