Ancient Aliens: SHOCKING DISCOVERY BENEATH AZTEC CITY (Season 7) | History

[Music] teotihuacan mexico in 2003 archaeologists in this ancient city made a startling discovery a previously unknown tunnel lies 45 feet beneath the temple of the feathered serpent one of the most sacred pyramids on the continent working underground scientists methodically explored the debris-filled tunnel using a robotic probe with an infrared scanner after some 250 feet they reached a side cave the tail end of the tunnel terminus the tunnel is loaded with yellowish metallic looking orbs apparently colored clay the orbs are very interesting objects i've never seen anything like them in any kind of other archaeological context on the inside they are clay on the outside they're coated with some sort of gold flecks so they look like golden balls what purpose these golden balls served is unknown but some archaeologists believe the cavern in which they were found was a place of sacred ritual [Music] like the clay balls the walls were also covered in gold flecks so if the cavern was illuminated by a torch during a ceremony it would have shimmered with a thousand points of light resembling the cosmos [Music] these beautiful orbs of yellow material strongly suggest that someone was illustrating planets we do know that the mayan calendar is heavily calibrated to the orbital parameters of the planets in our solar system specifically the inner planets the red planet's connection to the mayan calendar is portrayed in the dresden codex this rare book from mayan antiquity describes the calendar in relation to mars movements across the sky the dresden codex is one of four remaining books that the maya wrote it is in many regards an astronomical almanac there are many different sections of the book that talk about different astronomical phenomena one of them is the planet mars there is an almanac near the end of the book that breaks up days into 10 groups of 78 days equaling 780 days which is the cyanotic period of mars in other words the time in which it takes mars to get back to the same place on the horizon from a human perspective [Music] scholars believe mars played an important role in the maya astrology that's described in the dresden codex above that almanac is a sky band shown with various aspects of celestial symbols we recognize out of hieroglyphs and hanging off of it is this interesting dragon like creature that dragon-like creature is recognized as the face of mars you

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Length: 3min 52sec (232 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 25 2020