New discovery about the ancient temple Chavín de Huántar 3000 years in Peru

On August 21, Peruvian and American archaeologists announced the discovery of a new labyrinth leading into three underground galleries at the ancient Chavín de Huántar temple dating back 3,000 years, located in a narrow valley in the mountains. Andes of this South American country.

According to a reporter in South America, Peruvian Deputy Minister of Culture Luis Felipe Villacorta said archaeologists have used small robots, wheels, lighting systems and micro cameras made by Dai's engineers. Stanford University (USA) designed to conduct exploration.

Experts have found many pieces of pottery, utensils and human bones in the cramped vaults of Chavín de Huántar temple in the Andes mountains above 3,200 meters above sea level.

Chavín de Huántar ancient temple in Peru.(Source: flickr).

This important finding shows that the galleries at the temple seem to be closed for about 2,000 years of the Chavin civilization.

According to Deputy Minister Villacorta, Peruvian archaeologists currently only find out about 15% of the underground population at Chavin temple and hope to discover more galleries to complete the full map of the tunnels here. .

The director of the Research Program at Chavín de Huántar Temple of Stanford University, John Rick, revealed one of the mysteries in this study was to find three ancient human skeletons at the galleries.

These may be people who have been sacrificed, because one of them has a lying down position. Two of the three skeletons are of children and the other is of a young man about 20-30 years old.

The temple of Chavín de Huántar, 250km away from the capital Lima, is recognized as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1985.

This is an ancient Peruvian religious belief center , consisting of 35 tunnels and intersecting underground sections, built during the period from 1200 to 200 years BC at the foot of the Andes Mountains, Ancash region.