In 2015, UNAM archaeologist Sergio Gómez and colleagues reported liquid mercury in a chamber at the end of a tunnel beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan. Elemental mercury is rare in nature and highly toxic. Gómez suggested that the mercury may have represented water. The video argues that it points to lost technologies or energy generation, but the archaeological evidence does not establish those claims.
Liquid mercury found beneath Teotihuacan’s Temple of the Feathered Serpent
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- In 2015, a team from Mexico’s National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), led by archaeologist Sergio Gómez, reported liquid mercury in a chamber at the end of a tunnel beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan.
- The find was in one chamber at the end of a tunnel, not in tunnels extending hundreds of feet below the pyramid.
- Elemental mercury is rarely found in liquid form in nature and is highly toxic, but the cited evidence does not show that ancient people extracted or stored the Teotihuacan mercury.
- Mercury has also been found at the Maya site of El Mirador and in ancient Chinese tombs.
- Gómez suggested that the mercury may have served as a symbolic representation of water. The video argues for lost technologies or energy generation; the cited researchers do not make those claims.
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