A Large Structure Is Hidden Inside The Kukulkan Pyramid At Chichen Itza

MessageToEagle.com – There is no doubt anymore. There is another pyramid hidden inside the Kukulkan pyramid. The ancient Kukulkan pyramid was built like a Russian “nesting doll”.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the original structure built at the pyramid of Kukulkan at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza. It has long been known that a smaller pyramid is encapsulated underneath the visible temple and scientists have found an even smaller structure inside the outer two layers.  

Using what is called tri-dimensional electric resistivity tomography, or “ERT-3D,” researchers found a 10-meter (yard) tall structure within the 20-meter (yard) tall ‘intermediate’ pyramid that was covered over by the last construction stage, perhaps around 900 A.D.

ERT-3D is a popular because it’s a non-invasive technique that helps researchers to avoid damaging the pyramid.

“If we can research this structure in the future it could be important, because it could tell us about the first-period inhabitants’ of the site,” Archaeologist Denisse Lorenia Argote said.

Rene Chavez, a researcher at the National Autonomous University’s Institute of Geophysics, said the early structure appeared to have a staircase and perhaps an altar at the top that may have just been filled in and preserved. The structure has been mapped, but it is not clear whether it will be excavated.

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“Given that no one has excavated this structure … it is difficult to say with certitude if it is one of the oldest buildings at the site,” Braswell said. “But this is quite possible.”

It is possible this structure was already detected in in the 1940s when one archaeologists while digging into the intermediate-layer pyramid found a third platform buried within it.

“The tunnel was unstable, so we know very little about this platform,” said University of California, San Diego anthropology professor Geoffrey Braswell, who was not involved in the latest project but who has conducted research at Chichen Itza.

“It appears to be much smaller than the outer two pyramids, and is not perfectly aligned within them.”

“The tunnel was unstable, so we know very little about this platform,” Braswell said. “It appears to be much smaller than the outer two pyramids, and is not perfectly aligned within them.”

The computer image distributed by the researchers also showed an underlying structure not quite aligned with the subsequent layers.

Braswell compared the Kukulkan pyramid to a Russian nesting doll, with each layer encapsulating another. But at the bottom, there may be more than one platform encapsulated.

“To make matters more complicated, ” Braswell wrote, “the third Russian doll moving in may actually be one of a set of several small dolls rattling around inside the same shell. We just do not know. ”

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