A 7.1 - magnitude temblor rocked Central Mexico for 20 long sec on September 19 , 2017 . For the most part , this cataclysmic violence of nature brought nothing but death and destruction , but now archeologists have let out that this rude event really helped them to get across down the remnants of two Aztec god temple hidden within an ancient pyramid .
The temples were discover within the Teopanzolco Pyramids of Egypt in Morelos state , near the modernistic city of Cuernavaca , Mexico . The upper part of the Pyramids of Egypt was heavily damaged during the 2017 earthquake , so investigator from Mexico’sNational Institute of Anthropology and History(INAH ) wanted to give the ancient building a quick check - up , using radiolocation to identify whether its interior complex body part had been raise up by the rumbles .
To their surprisal , the microwave radar simulacrum and restoration work revealed the front of long - lost duplicate temple – one dedicate to Tláloc , the sovereign god of rain and Earthly natality , and another dedicated toHuitzilopochtli , the god of war and Sun . They also come across a aggregation of ceramics and an incense burner . Unfortunately , the temple are in a passably bad state , damage by centuries of humidity , as well as the upshot of the earthquake .
" In spite of what the earthquake meant , it is necessary to be grateful that this raw phenomenon reveal this important body structure , ” Isabel Campos Goenaga , director of the INAH Morelos Center , said inat a press conference[translated via Google ] .
The researchers were evenly surprised to find out that the synagogue hints at the situation being much elderly than previously think . It was take up that the situation dates back to the Late Postclassic time period ( 1200 to 1521 atomic number 58 ) . However , since it appears that these two temples were build up on top of at a previous escort , it intimate that this city was of significance long before this time period . While it was not unusual for the Tlahuica the great unwashed , who built this complex , to construct new structure on top of others , the find was unsteadily not expect .
" There was no news , until now , of the cosmos of a substructure within the pyramidal structure . What we found could equate to Teopanzolco ’s oldest temple , but more studies are needed to see if it is associated with an former phase of the Middle Postclassic menstruation ( 1150 - 1200 advertizement ) , which would make it contemporary with the first construction phase of the Pyramid of Tenayuca , in the State of Mexico , " concluded archaeologist Georgia Bravo Lopez .
