Barnhart, Deyo and Dunning: Discoveries at the Quetzalcoatl Pyramid at Teotihuacan
Earth Ancients
Cliff Dunning
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🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Over 100,000 artifacts from the tunnel have been cataloged so far, ranging from finely-carved statues, jewelry, shells, and ceramics as well as thousands of wooden and metallic objects that mostly survived the passage of time intact.
On a recent tour of the tunnel and conservation workshops where his 30-member team pores over the trove, Gomez showed off some of the dig’s most spectacular and until now unreported finds - all part of ceremonial offerings left along the 100-meter-long (330 ft) tunnel, which ended in three chambers directly under the pyramid’s mid-point.
“Can you see it?” Gomez asked, shining the light of his cellphone on a tennis-ball-sized carved amber sphere he picked up from a workshop table. Illuminated, it looks like molten lava.
It is the first time an ornament made from amber has turned up in Teotihuacan. Found with a small top and residue inside that awaits further analysis - Gomez speculates it may be tobacco - it likely hung around a priest’s neck.
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| 0:00.0 | On this special holiday weekend, we look back at a trip that was taken earlier in the |
| 0:08.5 | year, a visit with Dr. Sergio Gomez and the T. O. T. Wacon pyramid known as the Quetzal |
| 0:16.2 | Quarrel or the serpent pyramid at that location. |
| 0:21.2 | We're going to hear from a orthodox archaeologist, Dr. Edwin Barnhard, who will give us his |
| 0:27.3 | take on what took place, what was found, what was ignored and what the discovery means |
| 0:35.6 | to our understanding of the ancient past, specifically the Mesoamerican cultures that lived |
| 0:42.5 | in Mexico at the time this pyramid was built. |
| 0:48.1 | All this and the news with Bruce Fenton on Earth Ancients. |
| 1:18.1 | For Saturday, December 25th, 2021, this is Earth Ancients. I'm your host, Cliff Dunning. |
| 1:48.1 | We have arrived at the big date, it is here. I think this is one of the first programs |
| 2:13.0 | we've ever done on a Christmas day. This is Saturday, the 25th, Merry Christmas to you, |
| 2:21.7 | and I hope you are enjoying the day, hot eggnog, hot toddies, whatever your drink is, nice |
| 2:28.9 | and warm by the fireplace and you're joining me today for another program. So again, Merry |
| 2:37.2 | Christmas. I like saying that, Merry Christmas. I finally kicked into the feeling, the holiday |
| 2:45.0 | spirit. It's been about 10 days now and I've been mentioning over the last couple of |
| 2:51.4 | shows that I'm here. I'm feeling it and I hope you are too because this is a special time |
| 2:58.3 | of year reminiscing about the time that has passed with family and friends and celebrating |
| 3:06.2 | this special holiday season. It's an important time of year too. I mean, we've all been |
| 3:12.5 | going through this wretched pandemic and I keep saying it, you know, isolation from your |
| 3:20.4 | friends and from your family is really strenuous and it's taken a toll on me, it's taken |
| 3:27.8 | a toll on my friends and likely taking a toll on you too. So we deserve a break from |
| 3:35.8 | this pandemic and this is time to celebrate. So there you go. We have kind of a unique |
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