A scan of the ruins of the pyramid of the Moon from the ancient city of Teotihuacan, located 50 kilometers from modern Mexico City, showed that there is indeed a tunnel under it. The underground corridor, archaeologists believe, probably imitated a journey to the afterlife. It is reported by ABC News.
"The discovery confirms that the inhabitants of Teotihuacan reproduced the same image in their huge temples, its function is to imitate the afterlife," - said archaeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico) Veronica Ortega.
The tunnel is located at a depth of about ten meters below the base of the Moon's pyramid. Archaeologists believe that it was filled up in antiquity.
The heyday of the city-state of Teotihuacan fell on the period between 250-600 AD, when it was inhabited by more than 200 thousand people. By the time the Aztecs appeared on this territory, around the XIV century, it was abandoned by the local residents. Archaeologists still have not found any remains of the Teotihuacan elite, who ruled before the arrival of the Aztecs. The reason for the decline of the ancient state is also unknown.