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Tuesday, 31. May 2005

Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded



That it chirps is fact. That the Mayans engineered the pyramid so that it made a sound is fact. But did they get the sound they tried for? Regardless, it is pretty advanced!



A theory that the ancient Mayans built their pyramids to act as giant resonators to produce strange and evocative echoes has been supported by a team of Belgian scientists.

Nico Declercq of Ghent University and his colleagues have shown how sound waves ricocheting around the tiered steps of the El Castillo pyramid, at the Mayan ruin of Chichén Itzá near Cancún in Mexico, create sounds that mimic the chirp of a bird and the patter of raindrops.



Source: Bio Ed Online


 
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