[Music] October [Music] 2003 torrential rains sweep through the ruins of this ancient pyramid complex leaving a 3ft wide sinkhole at the foot of one of the site's most important structures the Temple of The Feathered [Music] Serpent archaeologists immediately begin exploring the C [Music] what they found is a tunnel leading from outside the temple all the way to about Center Line underneath the temple it was very filled in probably by the teot tanos themselves but it's been a slow process to excavate halfway through down the tunnel we find these two Chambers on either side as they
continued down they found three more Chambers at the end and those hold some incredible things there were many jade statues in there and Ceramics in April 2015 after nearly 12 years of excavations archaeologists Sergio Gomez and his team make another sh shocking Discovery directly underneath the center of the pyramid they have located a vast pool of liquid mercury what makes this so interesting is that the Mercury cannot exist in its native form in nature there is a natural mineralic material called cinear and in order to get Mercury you have to extract it out of the
cinear which requires a complex process involving high temperatures it's a highly toxic element it is difficult to extract so the logistics behind this are incredible how was it transported there where did it come from and for what purpose also how did our ancestors handle liquid mercury without them dying out interestingly enough the only other site that that features liquid mercury is in China inside the Tomb of the first emperor how come there is liquid mercury in a tomb in China and now they've discovered liquid mercury in teu aan one has to ask the question what
was it used for liquid mercury is a superconductor and in our modern technological age this class of elements is being used in Revolutionary applications such as free energy generation Advanced Medical Imaging and cuttingedge transportation projects but why would there be vast amounts of mercury found under a nearly 2,000-year-old pyramid could it have served a technological purpose [Music]
