Dragon and temple passages found in Peru

Carlos Valdez (Reuters via MSN, 5/30/22); Xochitl, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cordillera de los Andes in the summer, Andes Mountains, Argentina (wiki)

Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple (Reuters/MSN)

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Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple

Chavín de Huántar archeological site

LIMA, Peru - A team of archeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the Peruvian Andes Mountains.

Chavín de Huántar temple, located in the north-central Andes Mountains, was once a religious and administrative center for people across the region.

The passageways were found earlier in May (2022) and have features believed to have been built earlier than the temple's labyrinthine galleries, according to Dr. John Rick, an archeologist at Stanford University who was involved in the excavation.

Located 3,200 meters above sea level, at least 35 underground passageways have been found over the years of excavations, which all connect with each other and were built between 1,200- and 200-years B.C. in the foothills of the Andes Mountains.

"It's a passageway, but it's very different. It's a different form of construction. It has features from earlier periods that we've never seen in passageways," Dr. Rick said. More

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