Ancient Tunnel Discovered in
Sacred Inca City of Cuzco
"This find may form part of a series of galleries, chambers, fountains and ancient mausoleums located under the ancient Incan city of Cuzco."
A tunnel measuring 2 km in length, linking the Koricancha temple with the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, located on the outskirts of the Peruvian city of Cuzco, was discovered by Spanish archaeologist Anselm Pi Rambla, in the ancient Inca capital. The tunnel may form part of a series of galleries, chambers, fountains and ancient mausoleums which are probably under the city of Cuzco, according to measurments made by Pi Rambla as part of the Wiracocha Project, initiated in August 2000.
The Spanish scholar stated before the Peruvian Congress's Cultural Commission that he had discovered the subterranean passageway, which in his opinion, "may change perspectives on Peruvian history."
According to radar images obtained by Pi Rambla, the tunnel links directly to the Temple of the Sun or Korikancha, with the Convent of Santa Catalina or Marcahuasi, with the Cathedral or Temple of Inca Wiracocha, with the palace of Huascar, with the Temple of Manco Capac or Colcampata and with the Huamanmarca.
All of these buildings are in a perfect astronomical alignment, which confirms that ancient Peruvians also guided their constructions by the location of the Sun, the Moon and the constellations. Access to a tunnel at the Sacsayhuaman Fortress was already known, but it was condemned in 1923 to avoid the disappearances of curiosity seekers who entered it, since its trajectory was unknown.
The archaeologist explained that this would involve a "Pre-Inca citadel", belonging to a culture that has yet to be considered.
"We calculate that it would be some 100 meters under Cuzco...the great question is ascertaining what age it belonged to," adds the archaeologist.
SOURCE: EFE News Agency , March 9, 2003.
In May, Pi Rambla will spearhead the excavation work aimed at confirming the location of the subterranean galleries which confirm the stories of chroniclers like Garcilaso de la Vega and Cieza de León regarding an underground citadel in Cuzco.
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Royal House of the Sun
The terraced pyramid at Sacsayhuaman is made of cyclopean polygonal masonry constructs over 1000 feet long, the largest block weighing 360 tons at a height of over 27 feet.
After his capture in Vilcabamba in 1572 the last Inca, Tupac Amaru, was incarcerated in Sacsayhuaman. The revolutionary leader Tupac Amaru II addressed his ultimatum for the Bishop of Cuzco to surrender the city from the hilltop sanctuary. Today the monument is used to present the pageant recreation of the religious portion of the prehistoric Festival of the Sun called Inti Raymi at the Winter Solstice June 24th.
Garcilaso de la Vega born April 12, 1539 in Cuzco, Peru, the illegitimate son of Spaniard Sebastian Garcilaso de la Vega, and an Incan princess, who wrote "Commentaries of the Incas", reported that he personally knew that Sacsayhuaman had three towers.
"The fortress was a House of the Sun. Those of other nations were not able to enter the fortress, because it was a house of the sun. The largest and most magnificent work which the Inca ordered built to demonstrate their power and majesty was the fortress of Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman, the magnitude of which is incredible to those who have not seen it, and those who have seen and looked with attention it makes them imagine and even believe that it its greatness is made by way of enchantment and was made by devils and not men, because the multitude of so many stones of such great size, such as those placed on the three terraces (which are megaliths more so than stones), cause admiration in imagining how they could be cut from the quarries from which they were taken. Many of them are so fitted that the joint hardly shows, and to think how they could fit stones so immense so well that you can scarcely insert the point of a knife between them."
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Excerpt: "The enigmatic gods of ancient Sumer, Egypt, India and Peru all hail from the fabulous times before the Flood. Since the declassification of the new ground-penetrating radar, the most staggering data has emerged of complex labyrinthine underground tunnels in various parts of the world. At places like the temple complex of Sacsayhuaman in Peru and the Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, Guatemala, massive tunnel systems have been identified. It is possible to understand how a million Incans and Mayans escaped the decimation of their cultures. In similar fashion the SIRA radar deployed in Egypt as early as 1978, mapped an extraordinary subterranean complex beneath the Egyptian pyramids resulting in three decades of secret excavations to penetrate the system.
Recently in Australia one of the key scientists on the Giza project revealrd the discovery of a vast megalithic metropolis 15,000 years old, reaching several levels below the Giza plateau. While the rest of the world speculate about a hidden chamber under the left paw of the Sphinx, the legendary "City Of The Gods" sprawls beneath the plateau complete with hydraulic underground waterways. Remarkable caches of records and artifacts are rumored to have been found. This legacy of a civilization advanced beyond our own was capable of creating a vast underground city, of which the sphinx and pyramids are merely the surface markers. It has been likened to the impact of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial culture and described as the discovery of the Fourth Root culture, the so-called "Atlantean civilization" destroyed by the last earth upheavel."
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