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Modern Tunnel Entrance

A Ramble Around Teotihuacán with Dick Diehl

Entrance to a Modern Tunnel at Teotihuacán

Entrance to a Modern Tunnel at Teotihuacán

Photograph by Richard A. Diehl, November 2008

Doorways

In the front of the Sun Pyramid, we see two modern doorways. One leads to a second archeologist’s tunnel that connects in the center of the Pyramid with the one seen on the back. The other, identified by the metal door seen at the far left, is a modern opening into an ancient artificial cave excavated by the Teotihuacanos. The sacred cave probably represented the place from which humanity emerged at Creation, and may once have served as a tomb for an early Teotihuacán ruler.

Unfortunately for modern science, later Teotihuacanos removed whatever the cave once held long before the city came to an end. Visitors are not allowed in either the tunnel or the cave.

Written by Richard A. Diehl

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