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The Mayan Underworld (Shibalba) has been recently discovered on the Yukatan-peninsula (Mexico).

Strangely enough this dark place was not discovered by digging but by diving!

In total 14 interconnected and multi-level caves were discovered. The explorers found temple-ornaments, pottery, offerings and human skeletons. A sensational find and completely fitting the indigenous tales about the entrance to Shibalba, the Mayan “hell”.

Accept the underwater part.

“Ancient Aliens” goes for a simple explanation. Mayans were devout people, who could hold their breath very long. This made it possible to carve the stone statues and build the templestructures underwater.

The directors of the episode “Forbidden Caves” forgot the changes in sea- and sweetwater levels.

The cave-findings were dated to be, at least, 1000 years old.

In that same period coastal parts and islands of the Netherlands were flooded, villages had to be abandoned and disappeared into the sea and a hugh inland sea (Zuiderzee) was formed.

All caused by the rise of sea-levels in the period from 1000 – 1400 ad.

My conclusion. The Mayan Underworld was “easily” accessible for a long period of time. A centre of worship and rituals for a culture obsessed by blood.

Blood, that was washed away, by the incoming flood. Who also flooded the shrines and underground-temples of Shibalba.