12 Ancient Mysteries That Were Finally Solved Using Modern Technology

12 Ancient Mysteries That Were Finally Solved Using Modern Technology The year is approximately two thousand years ago. You are standing in the dark, sixty feet beneath one of the most powerful cities the ancient world has ever produced. The air is still. The walls around you shimmer. And the floor, stretching ahead into the blackness, is covered in liquid mercury, pooled and gleaming, scattering your torchlight into a thousand shifting mirrors. This is not a dream. This is not a myth. This is what archaeologist Sergio Gómez found at the end of a two-thousand-year-old sealed tunnel beneath the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, central Mexico, and when he surfaced and told the world what was down there, the world did not quite know what to do with it.