• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is some real dumb shit. While there is still a lot of archaeological work to be done at Teotihuacan. It was a city center.

    The liquid mercury bit was a piece of folkloric art, using the various precious metals and jewels as a representation of a landscape under the stars. The mercury represented lakes on the landscape.

    Dumb shit is far dumber than the cool shit they were doing artistically.

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      4 months ago

      And racist too, they say the ancient inhabitants could not have had knowledge of the solar system, because………? I guess they didn’t have eyes to see the stars and planets at night and track them like every single other civilization on earth has done. Racist horseshit.