This is like saying "Lincoln Cathedral is older than the Ming Dynasty." A vacuous triviality that only sounds revelatory if you don't know anything about Mesoamerican history. The Aztecs were not ancient; they were a very "modern" state that hearkened back to ancient forebears.

Crémieux

@cremieuxrecueil · Twitter · 2024-12-08 18:44 UTC

Oxford is older than the Aztecs