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1 / 1Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place on the year 2 Reeds or 1507. The gloss describes that the pictogram recounts the drowning of 1,800 warriors in an unidentified river, presumably in southern Mexico, the termination of the temple of the New Fire, where the ceremony of the new cycle of life was celebrated, and a solar eclipse as a circle with rays emanating from it in the upper right-hand side, below the date sign. Credit: Gerardo Suarez and Virginia Garcia-Acosta
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Pictograms: First Written Accounts Of Earthquakes In Pre-Hispanic Mexico

· 27 August 2021 · Comments off

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Codex Telleriano Remensis, created in the 16th century in Mexico, depicts earthquakes in pictograms that are the first written evidence of earthquakes in the Americas in pre-Hispanic times, according to a pair of researchers who have systematically studied the country’s historical earthquakes. Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place […]