In Mexico, in the middle of a pond, on the side of a volcano, lie the remnants of an ancient stone sanctuary that archaeologists believe was designed to serve as a model of the universe, the Associated Press reports.
Water from nearby located springs appeared to have been deliberately diverted to the site in order to create the illusion that the sanctuary was floating, as if on a mirror.
“These visual effects, in addition to the characteristics of the elements that make up the site and the relationship they have with each other, make us suppose that Nahualac could represent a microcosm that evokes the primitive waters and the beginning of the mythical time-space,” Iris del Rocio Hernandez Bautista, an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropology and History, noted, according to the International Business Times.
The sanctuary is at an elevation of nearly 13,000 feet, below the Iztaccihuatl volcano, the Associated Press added.
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