{"id":4802,"date":"2013-02-04T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T01:16:44","slug":"secret-chamber-found-at-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/02\/secret-chamber-found-at-machu-picchu-4802.html","title":{"rendered":"Secret Chamber Found at Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really exciting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been to many ancient sites (yet) &#8211; but when I do I always try to find secret entrances, even though I don&#8217;t expect a result.\u00a0David Crespy, a French engineer, did just that at\u00a0Machu Picchu, and he DID find a secret entrance. Many people will look at this pic and say &#8220;well, it was obvious&#8221;, and yet millions of other visitors never noticed it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?attachment_id=4803\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4803\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4803\" title=\"machu-picchu\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/machu-picchu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/machu-picchu.jpg 744w, http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/machu-picchu-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Realized between April 9th and April 12th 2012, the electromagnetic survey not only confirmed the presence of an underground room but several! Just Behind the famous entrance, a staircase was also discovered. The two main paths seem to lead to specific chambers, including to the main squared one. The different techniques used by the French researcher(s), (Molecular Frequencies Discriminator) allowed them to highlight the presence of important archaeological material, including deposits of metal and a large quantity of gold and silver!<\/p>\n<p>Thierry Jamin is now preparing the next step: the opening of the entrance sealed by the Incas more than five centuries ago. On May 22nd 2012, he officially submitted a request for authorization to the Peruvian authorities which would allow his team to proceed with the opening of the burial chambers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagedaily.com\/2013\/01\/a-french-peruvian-spanish-team-discovers-a-chamber-in-machu-picchu\/\">Story at Heritage Daily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/BenoitDuverneuil\/dossier-de-presse-machu-picchu-2012-en-15633237\">Official Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This news passes my BS-detector, so all we need to do now is wait, and hope that the authorities let the exploration commence. \u00a0Finding books is unlikely, as the Inca did not have a written language (that we are aware of). The most likely result is just some treasure, but I am hoping that there is something there that connects the Inca with cultures from across the Atlantic. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really exciting&#8230;<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t been to many ancient sites (yet) &#8211; but when I do I always try to find secret entrances, even though I don&#8217;t expect a result.\u00a0David Crespy, a French engineer, did just that at\u00a0Machu Picchu, and he DID find a secret entrance. Many people will look at this pic and say &#8220;well, it was obvious&#8221;, and yet millions of other visitors never noticed it:<\/p>\n<p>Realized between April 9th and April 12th 2012, the electromagnetic survey not only confirmed the presence of an underground room but several! Just Behind the famous entrance, a staircase was also discovered. The two main paths seem to lead to specific chambers, including to the main squared one. The different techniques used by the French researcher(s), (Molecular Frequencies Discriminator) allowed them to highlight the presence of important archaeological material, including deposits of metal and a large quantity of gold and silver!<br \/>\nThierry Jamin is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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