The World’s Largest Underwater Cave Was Just Discovered And It’s Full Of Mayan Secrets
After extensive explorations that took place close to the Mexican city of Tulum in the Yucatan Peninsula, the scientists found incredible subterranean caverns, what seems to be the world’s largest flooded cave system of the greatest archaeological importance.
“This immense cave represents the most important submerged archaeological site in the world, it has more than a hundred archaeological contexts, among which are evidence of the first settlers of America, as well as extinct fauna and, of course, the Maya culture.”- says underwater archaeologist Guillermo de Anda from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History.
The team responsible for the discovery belongs to the Great Maya Aquifer Project or GAM, and they have been exploring the underwater caves in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula for decades.
What they found there are stunning 358 submerged cave systems, representing some 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) of flooded freshwater tunnels beneath the surface.