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Originally Posted by MattyC

But there are some, why can't the Mayan's have made some poor settlement places as well? Have you ever been to Phoenix? Someone's going to have to explain to me why that city exists. There's also a complete clusterfata of problems due to a couple different religious groups claiming their city to be a holyland and fighting over it, on a mountain, in a desert.

Part of the debunking is that there are already discoveries in the area, so they obviously DID build in this impractical location. If that location corresponded with stars which they tracked, maybe it was a shrine that became a settlement. Maybe they thought being under the constellation of the agriculture god would bring them good crops. I don't understand the narrow view that it's an impractical location so their's no way they would have built there when we have been building things in ridiculous locations for ridiculous reasons since we had the ability to do so. And then to think we know why. We have been studying the pyramids for generations and still have no idea why a group of people would spend the many years needed to do so, what they are for, how it's even possible that they were built, etc..

We have such little knowledge about ancient cultures and their view of the world, the technology they may have used, why they built what they did, etc.. that it's crazy to me that anyone would discount they built something because the stars pointed to it.

Wasn't it because of a lot of silver in the hills around it?