If we go further back in time, we get to the (for me, anyway) more interesting question that the Spanish asked, to wit: where did the Aztec come from? And is there more of the good stuff they had in Tenochtitlan (gold, silver and precious stones) to be found there….wherever there is? “There” was variously know as Aztlán, Chicomoztoc, Colhuacán or Copala, Three potential sources of answers to this question present themselves: Nahuatl and Spanish written sources, linguistics and archeology. Some versions say the treasure is hidden near Kanab, Utah (Johnson Canyon or Three Lakes), others near the junction of the Colorado and Virgin Rivers in Northern Arizona (the James White and Johnson Brothers tales). However, I have to ask: is there is a kernel of truth hidden here, as there is in many such tales?Ī lot of the wackier versions I’ve turned up, trawling the internet, involve remnants of the Aztec hauling their treasure north after their 1521 defeat at the hands of Hernan Cortes’ Spanish and their indigenous allies. The latter takes a variety of forms, some of which are certifiably crazy. Close on the heels of the various “lost mines”, such as The Lost Dutchman and the Lost Adams Diggings, sought by treasure-hunters in Southwestern North America is “The Lost Treasure of the Aztecs”.
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