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Archeologists at the Mayan ruin site of Palenque said on Monday they have found an underground water burrow worked under the Temple of Inscription. 

Archeologists at the Mayan ruin site of Palenque said on Monday they have found an underground water burrow worked under the Temple of Inscriptions, which houses the tomb of an antiquated ruler named Pakal. 

Paleologist Arnoldo Gonzalez said specialists trust the tomb and pyramid were deliberately worked on a spring between AD 683 and 702. The passage drove water from under the memorial service chamber out into the expansive esplanade before the sanctuary, along these lines giving Pakal's soul a way to the underworld. 

Down the channel 

Consideration has concentrated on the vigorously cut stone sarcophagus in which Pakal was covered, and which some wrongly accept portray the Maya ruler situated at the controls of a spaceship. 

Be that as it may, Mr. Gonzalez said carvings on a couple of stone ear connects found to the grave say a divine being "will direct the dead toward the underworld, by submerging [them] into the water so they will be gotten there." 

Pakal, at the end of the day, didn't take off into space; he went down the channel. "There is nothing to do with spaceships," Mr. Gonzalez said. 

The passage, which associates with another, is made of stone and is around two feet (60 cm) wide and tall. 

The executive of prehistoric studies for the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Pedro Sanchez Nava, said the hypothesis bodes well in light of other pre-Hispanic people groups, for example, the individuals who inhabited Teotihuacan, close Mexico City, where another water passage was found. 

"In both cases there was a water momentum present," said Mr. Sanchez Nava. "There is this metaphorical importance for water ... where the cycle of life starts and finishes." 

The dive started in 2012, when specialists get to be worried about underground peculiarities recognized with geo-radar under the region before the pyramid's strides. 

Layered stone covering 

Dreading a gap or topographical shortcoming that could bring about the pyramid to settle or crumple, they burrowed at the spot and revealed three layers of deliberately fitted stone covering the highest point of the passage. 

Mr. Gonzalez said the same sort of three-layered stone covering has been found in the floor of Pakal's tomb, inside the pyramid. Scientists needed to send a robot with a camera down to view a great part of the underground level shaft. 

Francisco Estrada-Belli, a partner teacher of antiquarianism at Boston University who was not included in the burrow, kept in touch with, "I trust that building a tomb over a waterway positively fits with the conviction that water and water bodies were doorways to the underworld." 

"A few instances of sanctuaries [and the related tombs] are known not worked over characteristic buckles that might possibly have held water," Prof. Estrada-Belli composed. 

Writer Erich von Daniken proposed in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? that Pakal's position in the etching on the stone sarcophagus cover looked like the position of space travelers and that he seemed, by all accounts, to be situated in a contraption with flares leaving it. — AP