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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.
In November 2014 "large quantities" of mercury were discovered in a chamber 60 feet below the 1800-year-old pyramid known as the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, the third-largest pyramid of Teotihuacan, Mexico, along with "jade statues, jaguar remains, a box filled with carved shells and rubber balls". [38]
"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 ...
A Facebook post claims Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned with the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. That purported phenomenon is made up. Fact check: Image falsely shows Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned ...
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
The Djoser pyramid in Egypt is known as the oldest in the world at 4,700 years old. A new paper published in Archaeological Prospection calls that record into question with the strong claims of a ...
East is the imposing "Pyramid of the Sun " (Piramide del Sol), the third-largest pyramid in the world. It has a volume of 1 million cubic meters. It is a gradual pyramid, with a base dimension of 219.4 x 231.6 meters and a height of 65 meters. At the top of the pyramid, there was a huge pedestal, where human sacrifices were made.
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]