Published: October 8, 2025
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5 MEGALITHIC MYSTERIES OF MEXICO There’s much more to Mexico’s ancient past than we’ve been told… 🧵

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1. The Terraced Hill of Tezcotzingo In Aztec times, Texcoco was already an ancient city, the “Athens of America”. Virtually nothing remains of the ancient city itself, which at one time rivaled the great Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in beauty and magnificence. In 1824, the

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2. The Colossus of Coatlinchán The monolith of Coatlinchán is a colossal ancient statue that for centuries lay abandoned in an andesite quarry near the ancient city of Texcoco, before it was finally moved to Mexico City in 1964. The same andesite quarry is also believed to have

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3. The Monolithic Pyramid of Malinalco The little town of Malinalco, located less than 100 kilometers from Mexico City, contains a unique complex of rock-cut temples and structures of which the most famous is the Cuauhtinchan, the so-called “Temple of the Eagle Warriors.”

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4. The Forgotten Megaliths of Teotihuacan Between the 2ndCentury and the 5thCentury AD, the great pyramid city of Teotihuacan was the largest in the Western hemisphere, the “Rome of America,” with a population of nearly 250,000. Yet its monumental avenues and massive pyramids

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5. The Cruciform Tombs of Mitla and Guiaroo Some of the largest stone blocks employed in any ancient structure across the Americas are found at Mitla and in the nearby sites of Xaagá and Guiaroo. At Mitla, enormous andesite and porphyry stone lintels and monolithic columns, some

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All photos & article by Marco M Vigato. Marco holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA and MSc in Finance from Bocconi University. He is a photographer and researcher documenting the evidence of ancient civilizations and sacred sites around the world, specifically the

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@derek__olson HMMMMMmmmmm. They just keep finding them. https://youtube.com/shorts/Hw3...

@derek__olson I believe we had megaliths everywhere, some got bulldozed by glaciers, some by catastrophe and some buried waiting to be found. How long until we figure out we are not the 1st advanced civilization to be here?

@derek__olson @grok more poured geo polymer stone

@derek__olson The ancestors told us about the underworld we emerged from

@derek__olson Just look at that!

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🚨BREAKING: 4,300 year old ancient Egyptian painting has VANISHED from a locked tomb at the Saqqara Necropolis in Egypt Note: the black market for ancient antiquities is a BILLION $ a year industry 🤯 Who all had access to the keys of this locked door, and what should their

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I don’t know who needs to see this, but the first image is Tongata Manu from Easter island and the second is from Gobekli Tepe, pillar 43

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Beneath the rolling plains of Cappadocia, Turkey… lies a city carved entirely underground, deep enough to hide twenty thousand people. They call it Derinkuyu, “the Deep Well.” It wasn’t just a cave system. It had homes, schools, stables, ventilation shafts, even a church. all

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The pyramids were built in a lush, green Sahara. Around 6,000 years ago, a climate disaster occurred, tied to a geomagnetic excursion, the collapse of ocean currents, and massive flooding. Disasters like these are why people forgot how to read Egyptian and Sumerian, and why new

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