The civilization, named after its famous urban and cult center, along with the Olmec and Mayan cultures, is one of the oldest and most mysterious state formations in Mesoamerica.
The official history dates the city's emergence around the 2nd century BC. Unofficial, alternative history, attributes traces of even more ancient civilizations that lived on this earth long before the Aztecs, perhaps even before the Great Flood …
The Aztecs considered Teotihuacan the "City of the Gods". Ancient legends say that this place was inhabited by gods who returned to earth after the Flood. Here, according to the Aztecs, the gods revived the Sun and marked the beginning of a new era, called the Age of the White Jaguar. This is the birthplace of the Fifth Sun. This means that the earth was revived after the catastrophe more than once.
As mythical as such stories may sound, many facts speak in favor of the ancient origin of Teotihuacan. For example, the fact that all the structures of the city before the excavations were covered with a dense layer of earth.
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