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World's largest flooded cave found in Mexico by underwater archaeologists and divers, a passage which connects two underwater caves.The Great Maya Aquifer Project (GAM) team committed to studying the mysterious waters of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula spent years exploring the caves of Sac Actun and Dos Ojos in Tulum before connecting the two caverns together.

The combined cave will be known as the Sac Actun system, taking on the name of the longer section. The cave stretches across 216 miles. The Yucatan Peninsula, where the cave is located, reportedly still holds treasures from the ancient Mayan community."This immense cave represents the most important submerged archaeological site in the world, as it has more than a hundred archaeological contexts," said GAM director Guillermo de Anda, in a statement, "Along this system, we had documented evidence of the first settlers of America, as well as extinct fauna and, of course, the Mayan culture."One of the Yucatan Peninsula's biggest sinkholes is the Gran Cenote - which sits three miles west of the popular tourist town, Tulum. This is also part of the Sistema Sac Actun, and has been used as a gateway for divers charting its many twists and turns.The Maya held the "cenotes" - giant sinkholes - of their region in high esteem, regarding them as holy sites and portals to communication with the gods.The finding has been described as "amazing" by Guillermo de Anda, who is both the director of Gran Acuifero Maya and an underwater archaeologist.This is not, technically, an uncovering of a new wonder - more a joining of dots.

In recent days, divers have confirmed what had been suspected for a while - that the Sistema Sac Actun (a submerged labyrinth which stretches out for 164 miles) and the Dos Ojos system (shorter, but still impressive at 52 miles in length) are one and the same thing, connected by a previously unsurveyed channel.Religious objects and human skeletons have been found at the bottom of some of these sinkholes, including the Sacred Cenote at the historic city of Chichen Itza - leading to the theory that they were used by the Maya for human sacrifice.

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