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Pictogram 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

Pictograms: First Written Accounts Of Earthquakes In Pre-Hispanic Mexico

AncientPages.com | August 27, 2021

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

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Cuneiform Tablets: One Of The Earliest Systems Of Writing Invented By The Sumerians

AncientPages.com | May 8, 2017

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A Sumerian epic poem entitled "Inanna and Enki" says that the art of writing was among many essential elements of civilization, transferred from Eridu, the City