Scientists from the UNAM and INAH discovered that inside the pyramid of Kukulkán, in Chichén Itzá, there is a Second substructure (pyramid).
The team of researchers from Institute of Geophysics (IGf), Faculty of Engineering (FI), and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), made the discovery thanks to a new technology non-invasive and unique in the world, developed by themselves.
Despite working at a temperature over 40 degrees centigrade and with unavoidable steam baths inside the pyramid of Kukulkán, in Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, the scientists achieved what could be the largest finding since the 1930s, when a first substructure was found inside the pyramid.
Now, with a three-dimensional electrical tomography, the team of mostly college students found one more, within the first and emblematic site of the Maya civilization.
The discovery was confirmed with this tomography, which allows “looking” inside a large structure. This technology, non-invasive and unique in the world, was developed by the research team, which includes René Chávez Segura, Gerardo Cifuentes Nava and Esteban Hernández Quintero, IGf; Andrés Trejo Andrade, from the FI; And Denisse Argote, of the INAH.
In this second and last phase of the field work the “interior” of the pyramid was “rebuilt” and “lit”, its construction stages were verified and what happened with its structure was determined. In the first stage it was discovered that the same Mayan pyramid is built on a body of water (cenote).