The robot returned images showing what the story characterized as a "perfectly carved arch roof." The tunnel and the grave sites it most likely connects probably predates the birth of Christ. It also, potentially, offers some tantalizing hints into an epoch as enigmatic as any in human history.
If you're unfamiliar with Mexico's existing pre-Columbian art, visit the Wikipedia link to the country's National Museum of Anthropology (NMA).
When my parents visited Mexico many decades ago, they visited this museum. The exhibits bowled them over. I inherited their coffee table book on the museum's collection. The works in it are powerful, beautiful, mysterious as only objects from a lost world can be.
Perhaps the tunnel will reveal something of this ancient society. In the meantime, we'll have to be satisfied with the sculpture of the Olmec wrestler. (Full disclosure: the tunnel builders were probably not Olmecs. I just happen to like this piece, and it is in the NMA.)
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