Video: The State of Morelos, where the secret history of Mexico still is concealed

In follow up to my previous article, readers might really enjoy my video on Morelos. After graduating from the National University of Mexico, Alejandra spent several years working on sites, under Dr. Pina-Chan’s direction, in Morelos.

After we ran into each other in Tepoztlan during the Christmas holidays of 1980, she took me hiking up a canyon in the Sierra de Cobre (Copper Mountains), where there were mysterious stone ruins, stone cairns and petroglyphs, unlike any other in Mexico. This was in 1980, so I did not realize that the enigmatic vestiges from the past were identical to those in the Georgia Gold Belt, County Kerry, Ireland and southern Sweden. However, I did photograph them, and the photos are in much better shape than those taken 10 years earlier in Mexico.

The Mexican government continues to conceal the existence of these ancient stone ruins . . . because they tell a very different story for the origin of Mesoamerican civilization than was adopted in the late 20th century by the government tourism folks. Keep in mind that indigenous Mexicans have always said that Tepoztlan was the oldest city in the Americas and was where Quetzalcoatl was born.

Richard L. Thornton, Architect and City Planner