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 ...
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In this vale of toil and sin
Your pate goes bald but not your chin
Burma Shave!
It was a note that said, “so long, and thanks for all the fish”
Given the Azttec came later. The Aztecs probably sacrificed and ate them!
Ha.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer used to ask “Why do men like me lose all our hair on our heads but at the same time we have increased nose hairs and ear hair?”
Ha.
Those crafty ancients were so far ahead of us today.
They had everyone do the Charleston while they died.
(probably requires an explanation) Since it's clearly a tribal casino, there needed to be live entertainment.Dying Crapshooters Blues | 3:05
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Hypothesis that the inhabitants were one of the originating “Drink The Kool-aid” cults?
Famine, disease, conquerers, disastrous weather, or any combination of those would wipe out a civilization quickly enough.
Think that might have had something to do with it?
As a general rule a civilization can survive three years of bad harvests. Any more and things fall apart.
(1) Drought
(2) Epidemic
(3) Psychopathic leadership, backed up by a psychopathic army, like Pol Pot in Cambodia
It says they’ve moved to a secret underground chamber on Oak Island.
I had some tea ot Tihuacan, years ago.
Hold my tequila and watch this!
“Ancient Inhabitants of Teotihuacan May Have Left Clues Explaining Their Mysterious Disappearance.”
“ Gone to Texas.”
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It’s in cursive so I couldn’t read it.
The 600 year gap between the end of Teotihuacan and the arrival of the Aztecs in Mexico makes this a bit of a stretch.
Not at all, that’s not much of a gap. The hypothesis can only be confirmed or not when the writing is cracked, which probably will happen quickly, now that there’s a depth in the field of study of Mesoamerican writing.
Also, by “rudimentary language” the writer of the story should have said “rudimentary writing system”. Obviously they had language.
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