For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central Mexico from roughly the first to the sixth century AD, with a population that may have reached 125,000 — actually have a writing system, or were its symbols just decorative emblems? The stakes of that question […]

Durante décadas, los expertos discutieron si Teotihuacan —la ciudad que dominó el centro de México entre los siglos I y VI d. C., con una población que pudo alcanzar los 125.000 habitantes— poseía un sistema de escritura verdadero o si, por el contrario, sus signos eran simples emblemas decorativos. La pregunta no era menor: los […]