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When the Aztec's found Teotihuacan they didn't know who built it or why but moved in and made the abandoned complex their own. Is this true and, if so, what other examples are there of "ancient" civilizations claiming ruins they knew very little about for their own purposes?

by /u/BlackMarketMtnDew in /r/AskHistorians

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