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Ancient Inhabitants of Teotihuacan May Have Left Clues Explaining Their Mysterious Disappearance
The Debrief ^ | October 7, 2025 | Christopher Plain

Posted on 10/07/2025 1:51:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

A new analysis of artwork left behind by the enigmatic inhabitants of the abandoned Mesoamerican city Teotihuacan suggests the colorful pictures and shapes may constitute a rudimentary language that ultimately evolved into the language of the Aztecs.

If the team of researchers behind the discovery can successfully decipher the "lost language," they believe it could offer clues about the identity of Teotihuacan's builders and the reasons they abandoned the once thriving metropolis...

Previous excavations and decades of research have determined that Teotihuacan was founded sometime around 100 AD. Researchers have also determined that the massive complex of buildings and roadways likely supported as many as 125,000 citizens during its peak. However, scientists and archaeologists haven't found a conclusive explanation for their disappearance around 600 AD...

According to a statement announcing their findings, the team began to see a pattern that indicated the artworks on the walls of the structure and other artefacts likely represented a "linguistic ancestor of the Cora and Huichol languages" as well as Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs...

In the study's conclusion, the team stated that their findings also seem to indicate that people who spoke a predecessor of the Nahuatl language arrived in the area much earlier than previously believed...

The researchers suggest more work is needed to paint a clearer picture of the language they have discovered. They also say that understanding this language could be the key to unraveling the mysterious disappearance of the people who built the magnificent city of Teotihuacan almost 2,000 years ago.

The study "The Language of Teotihuacan Writing" was published in Current Anthropology.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aztecs; christopherplain; cora; croatan; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; huichol; mesoamerica; nahuatl; precolumbian; teotihuacan

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Example of a linear text in Teotihuacan writing painted in three columns on the floor of the Plaza de los Glifos.
Image Credit: Christophe Helmke, University of Copenhagen
Image Credit: Christophe Helmke, University of Copenhagen

1 posted on 10/07/2025 1:51:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 10/07/2025 1:52:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Gone Fishing


3 posted on 10/07/2025 1:53:45 PM PDT by xp38
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To: SunkenCiv

Translation of above:
No lady wants to wine and dine,

escorted by a porcupine.

Burma Shave


4 posted on 10/07/2025 1:53:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: SunkenCiv

5 posted on 10/07/2025 1:55:00 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I got the key, it is in the little red riding hood story, what big eyes you have.

Either that, or it is one of those IQ tests which ask how the image on the left differs from the one on the right.


6 posted on 10/07/2025 1:56:01 PM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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To: SunkenCiv
much earlier than previously believed...

There's a lot of that going around in archeology these days.
7 posted on 10/07/2025 1:57:25 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy

MY GUESS: DISEASE-—LEAVING BEHIND THE SICK ONES & GOING ELSEWHERE


8 posted on 10/07/2025 2:00:07 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SunkenCiv

Don’t drink the koolaid.


9 posted on 10/07/2025 2:02:09 PM PDT by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ancient people “disappeared” from an area for 3 reasons. Drought, pestilence, or murder by neighbors. Seems the residents of Teotihuacan fell victim to door number 3.


10 posted on 10/07/2025 2:05:43 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: SunkenCiv

Too many Illegals moved in...


11 posted on 10/07/2025 2:05:49 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: SunkenCiv

Nahuatl is related to Indian languages of the US Southwest (Uto-Aztecan family). It doesn’t seem likely that the language was spoken in the Teotihuacan area so early.


12 posted on 10/07/2025 2:08:12 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SunkenCiv

They split for Lake Titicaca because they heard it was a gas, man.
Dr. Samuel Davis, Jr. Phd


13 posted on 10/07/2025 2:11:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: dpetty121263

Nah, nah. It was aliens from outer space. That kid with the funny hair do on The History Channel said so.

He’s one smart kid, with that wacky hair do.

Yup. UFO’s came and took them all away.


14 posted on 10/07/2025 2:15:43 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Ilopango Caldera in El Salvador volcano erupted in the years 539–540 AD. This eruption ejected a huge amount of ash, leading to widespread global cooling (about -2 to -4 degrees) known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age and also put tons of sulfur into the atmosphere which rained down in the waterways and on the crop fields.


15 posted on 10/07/2025 2:18:35 PM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s the book …. “To serve Man”


16 posted on 10/07/2025 2:19:21 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: xp38
How they disappeared....


17 posted on 10/07/2025 2:20:59 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: jmacusa

Believe those UFO’s are piloted by Demons from another dimension.


18 posted on 10/07/2025 2:26:39 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: SunkenCiv

That upper right image is clearly a guy kissing a playing card.

Gambling must have been big.


19 posted on 10/07/2025 2:38:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: frank ballenger

Ha ha ha ha! I love free Republic!


20 posted on 10/07/2025 2:49:28 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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