Andrew Schulz

That's a lesser version of the photos that we've seen.

And then... How are they getting rid of the water?

Or how are they elevating the... Yeah, well, they must be quarrying stones in and building up the land that's actually... You're in this rocky outcropping, so you're building up the sides of it.

Because it's below sea level, right?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, what's below the level of the lake, yeah.

In a lake bed.

Yeah, yeah.

In a lake bed.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And they're all like sinking.

Yeah.

now in ancient times they were repairing all that constantly so the city would have just been perfectly flat and level the whole you know um have the aztecs not fallen it would have stayed that way um but this is all man-made the whole i mean the whole city from the very center uh where the center of the city is there where you see like the royal palisades and everything that was where that little rocky outcropping was and they just brought up the land itself from inside the water and then expanded the city on top of that

And so you would traverse the city on man-made sidewalks and little ravines where you could sail boats between buildings.

It's like a Venice, if you will.

Very similar.

Wow.

And so you can imagine they're being paid royally for their mercenary work.

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