Aztlan, the Mexican Atlantis
An island known as Aztlan is Mexico’s Atlantis?the lost land of the Aztecs. Described in ancient legends, some people think it doesn’t exist, while others have spent their lives searching for it. Some archeologists think it may be in Utah.
Alistair Bell writes that the Aztecs, a warlike tribe that practiced human sacrifice, wandered through Mexico for years before creating a great empire in what is now Mexico City around 1325. It was destroyed when the Spanish arrived. Aztlan was their original cultural center. Archeologist Jesus Jauregui says, “Aztlan is a mythical place, not a historical one.” But they said the same thing about Atlantis, which several researchers have now identified. Someday soon we’ll know which Atlantis site is the real one.
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