[SunkenCiv]

The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha sort:

• Ancient Footprints Offer Evidence Humans Wore Shoes 148,000 Years Ago [09/15/2023]
• The Aral Sea: The Toxic Soviet Sea [09/11/2023]
• Archaeologists Found Seal Impressions That Could Change Hittite History in Kayalipinar [09/15/2023]
• Archaeologists miraculously unearth steps to ancient Pool of Siloam, where Jesus healed a blind man [09/11/2023]
• Buried Alive Twice, Retired NYC Firefighter Shares Harrowing 9/11 Experience [09/06/2023]
• (WTC1 Burning/WTC2 Impact Fireball) [09/09/2023]
• Did Caravaggio Paint His Own Murder Confession? [09/12/2023]
• Divers recover US airman's remains from WWII bomber wreck near Malta [09/16/2023]
• France and the United States: The Plans and Purposes of the Emperor Napoleon The Proclamation of the Empire in Mexico (9/5/1863) [09/09/2023]
• Human skull found in Goodwill donation box [09/12/2023]
• I am listening to ANCIENT ROMANS by Thomas R Martin. Struck at how closely the fall of western civilization follows the fall of Rome. [09/15/2023]
• Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car [09/16/2023]
• Is Arabic Trickster Actually the Greek Philosopher Socrates? [09/12/2023]
• Israeli teen finds 1,700-year-old bronze ring in ruins of Greek city [09/12/2023]
• John Steinbeck and the Fall and Rise of Israel's 'Mount Hope'-How a 19th century massacre of Americans in Israel shaped a writer and changed two nations. [09/15/2023]
• Large Group of Bat Rays -- Called a Fever -- Recorded Off the Coast of Santa Cruz County [09/12/2023]
• Massive 2,000-Year-Old Plaza from Mysterious Roman City Unearthed in Spain [09/10/2023]
• Military lab works to ID generations of missing service members [09/15/2023]
• Neolithic Arrowhead Found in Iron Age Burial [09/17/2023]
• 1900 years old a Customs Inscription from the Lycian civilization reveals Anatolia's strategic importance in maritime trade [09/16/2023]
• A Painting Attributed to Raphael by AI Is Questioned by Experts as Contradictory Study Emerges [09/12/2023]
• Remains of U.S. WWII pilot who never returned from mission identified [09/12/2023]
• Spanish Water Worker discovered 2,500-Year-Old two Gold Necklaces [09/15/2023]
• Stolen Van Gogh Painting Recovered in Ikea Bag by Groninger Museum [09/12/2023]
• Why is Herodotus called "The Father of History"? [09/10/2023]

[zeestephen]

Re: "Aztec archives were extensively destroyed by Spanish troops and little usable information survives."

I was under the impression that pre-Columbian Mexico did not have a written language or anything that resembled paper.

What did the Aztec archives look like before they were allegedly destroyed by the Spanish?

Were the archives engraved and/or painted on stone?

What percentage of the Aztec people could actually read or write the archives?

I will guess less than 1% of Aztecs.

And, of course, several thousand 21st Century, Woke, university professors and graduate students.