Latest Aztec Discoveries: Origin and Untold Riches

From the Dust Jacket: Latest Aztec Discoveries: Origin and Untold Riches By GUY E. POWELL, In collaboration with Luther Powell, Jr. and Jim Powell. This book could well be the most important contribution to archeology of this decade, for it presents evidence that the prehistoric place of origin of the Aztecs was in East Texas. Guy E. Powell claims to have found Aztlan, the lost, far-away-to-the-north legendary homeland of the Indian tribes to whom Cortez gave the common name of Aztecs when he invaded Mexico. In support of this claim, Powell sets forth arresting evidence. Even before publication, the findings he describes and the conclusions he draws have awakened enthusiastic interest on the part of noted anthropologists and archeologists. The topography of the area Powell has explored, the pictographs he has located and deciphered, the remains of what appear to be temples and sacrificial stones all have their counterparts in the legends and religious beliefs, in the known artifacts and customs of Mexico's Aztecs. Step by step he traces a similarity too arresting to be ignored. For instance, a post-conquest Aztec painting in the American Museum of Natural History shows practically a duplicate of the land map drawn on the wall of one of Guy E. Powell's ancient caves. The evidence builds, taking in physical, historic and geographical facts that lead to one important conclusion - legendary Aztlan and its store of rich sacrificial offerings to the gods is now a challenge to further exploration.