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  2. Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan - Wikipedia

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    About 17 metres beneath the pyramid's center, a miniature mountainous landscape was used to hold objects, including a rubber ball (used in the Mesoamerican ballgame) representing the Sun. [32] Pools of liquid mercury in some of the tiny valleys represented lakes.

  3. Mercury (element) - Wikipedia

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    A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liquid at standard temperature and pressure; [a] the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is the halogen bromine, though metals such as caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature.

  4. Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning - Wikipedia

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    The influential Tang physician and alchemist Sun Simiao's c. 640 alchemical Taiqing zhenren dadan 太清真人大丹 (Great Purity Essentials of Elixir Manuals for Oral Transmission) recommends 14 elixir formulas he found successful, most of which seem poisonous, containing mercury and lead, if not arsenic, as ingredients. [32]

  5. How a PhD student accidentally discovered a lost Mayan city ...

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    An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest.. The data came from laser ...

  6. Fact check: Image falsely shows Mercury, Venus and Saturn ...

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    A Facebook post claims Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned with the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. That purported phenomenon is made up. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...

  7. Mysterious ‘void’ discovered in the Great Pyramid - AOL

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    The tallest and oldest of the three large pyramids on the Giza Plateau has a hidden secret sealed inside. Mysterious ‘void’ discovered in the Great Pyramid Skip to main content

  8. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor - Wikipedia

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    "A Preliminary Study of Mercury Buried in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor", an article published in Archaeology magazine, Volume 7, says that during the measuring of soil mercury content, one measured point reached 1440 parts per billion; the rest of 53 points reached an average content of around 205 ppb. There is also a claim that the ...

  9. Alchemical symbol - Wikipedia

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    The exact correlation varied over time, and in early centuries bronze or electrum were sometimes found instead of mercury, or copper for Mars instead of iron; however, gold, silver, and lead had always been associated with the Sun, Moon, and Saturn. [note 1] The associations below are attested from the 7th century and had stabilized by the 15th ...