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T<\/strong>enochtitl\u00e1n <\/strong>was the capital city of the Aztec empire, occupying what is now the centre of Mexico City, in what we know as the \"valley<\/a>Valley of Mexico. At the time of the Spanish invasion in 1521, it has been estimated that its population numbered over 200,000, making it one of the largest cities in the world at the time. It was built on an island in the middle of a lake(a)<\/sup>, a feature often found in many ancient Aztec towns and cities.<\/p>\n

The features of Tenochtitl\u00e1n have been frequently compared with Venice and its canal system, not to mention the concentric waterways of Atlantis described by Plato. Like Atlantis, it too has its central pyramidal temples as well as bridges and other structures.<\/p>\n

Tenochtitlan had a huge marketplace described in Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks’ book, An Age of Voyages [1773<\/a>]<\/sup>. \u00a0“Tenochtitlan has a great marketplace where ‘sixty thousand people come each day to buy and sell\u2026 Its merchandise included ornaments of gold and silver, lead, brass, copper, tin, stones, shells, bones, and feathers \u2026”(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The pros and cons of Mexico hosting Atlantis are discussed by Lawrence Freeman, author of\u00a0Beyond the Pillars: a search for Antediluvian civilizations<\/em>(f)<\/span><\/sup>, in a 2000 paper(e)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Edward Ziomek<\/a> continues to promote the idea of a Mexican Atlantis centred on Tenochtitl\u00e1n(b)<\/span><\/sup> and\/or Teotihuacan(c)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/mitchtestone.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/island-city-of-tenochtitlan.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.eupedia.com\/forum\/archive\/index.php\/t-9206.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10749411@N03\/5068038568<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> Tenochtitlan: The Atlantis of the Ancient Aztec Empire – Pyramidomania (archive.org)<\/a>
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(e)<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220726040126\/https:\/\/chapala.com\/chapala\/Oct2000.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/span><\/sup> http:\/\/lfreeman.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/beyond-pillars-search-for-antediluvian.html<\/a>
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Tenochtitl\u00e1n was the capital city of the Aztec empire, occupying what is now the centre of Mexico City, in what we know as the Valley of Mexico. At the time of the Spanish invasion in 1521, it has been estimated that its population numbered over 200,000, making it one of the largest cities in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,3973,6326,42,132,1203,1318],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-edward-ziomek","tag-lawrence-freeman","tag-mexico","tag-plato","tag-tenochtitlan","tag-valley-of-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64602,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/64602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}