The Aztecs settled in Mexico about 1,800 years ago, but their origin legends refer to a mysterious location north called Tamoanchan, perhaps in Utah, or even Sumer?
Merilee Grindle is an emeritus professor of international development at Harvard University and the author of, most recently, In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations.