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A 2000-Year-Old ‘Lost Script’ Has Been Deciphered—Now It May Help Solve the Enduring Mystery of Ancient Teotihuacan

At the height of its power, the ancient city of Teotihuacan was a marvel of grandeur and magnificence in ancient Mesoamerica, having ascended to become its largest city, as well as being one of its most culturally significant.

Yet by 900 A.D., Teotihuacan had fallen under the might of the invading Toltecs, and knowledge of who had assembled one of the leading cultural centers of the early Americas was erased. Little was left for modern archaeologists beyond the culture’s imposing architecture, which include the famous Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.

However, these impressive structural remnants were not all that the inhabitants of Teotihuacan left behind. Amid the site’s ruins, ancient murals, and the artifacts that have weathered Mesoamerican climates for millennia, archaeologists have also found symbols left by the city’s ancient inhabitants, which to this day have remained undeciphered.

That is, until now. In a new research effort, led by Magnus Pharao Hansen and Christopher Helmke of the University of Copenhagen, the meaning behind Teotihuacan’s enigmatic symbols is finally coming to light, revealing new evidence of an early Uto-Aztecan writing system.

The discovery, detailed in a study that appeared in the journal Current Anthropology, could potentially reshape theories about the ancient city and its inhabitants, and opens a window to more deeply understanding the lives and beliefs of those who once thrived at Teotihuacan before its fall.

This ancient Uto-Aztecan writing system, the researchers say, appears to have evolved over time into the Cora, Huichol, and ultimately the Nahuatl languages, the latter being associated with the Aztecs.

After studying symbols found in Teotihuacan’s murals and artifacts, the researchers concluded that these markings form a true writing system. They suggest it represents an early Uto-Aztecan language, which later evolved into Cora, Huichol, and Nahuatl, the language associated with the Aztecs.

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GOP Rep. Brandon Gill Leads Charge to Kill Republican-Backed ‘DIGNIDAD Act’ Amnesty Bill: ‘It’s in a Foreign Language for Added Insult’

Rep. Brandon Gill is publicly opposing an immigration bill that he argues would provide amnesty for illegal aliens, even though it is being pushed by some members of the Republican Party.

The legislation, H.R. 4393, is formally titled the DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025.

The bill’s full name is the “Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act of 2025.” It was introduced in July by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, along with Democrat co-sponsor Rep. Veronica Escobar.

According to Gill, the bill’s Spanish acronym “DIGNIDAD” is an insult on top of the policy itself.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Gill wrote, “It’s actually not called the ‘Dignity Act’ It’s called the ‘DIGNIDAD Act’ It’s in a foreign language for added insult.”

In another post, Gill wrote, “The clearest way for Republicans to tell our voters we viscerally hate them is passing the ‘Dignity Act’ or any other amnesty bill.”

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UK Schools Rake In Record £572 MILLION for Non-English Speaking Pupils

Mass immigration is once again exposing the true cost to British taxpayers, with UK schools now receiving a record £572 million to support pupils who do not speak English as their first language.

The bill has soared by £157 million since modern records began in 2020, according to Department for Education figures. This comes as the number of such pupils has climbed to 1.8 million – one in five children nationwide – up from 1.2 million a decade ago.

As revealed in a Daily Mail report, two schools alone – one in Manchester and one in Northampton – each collected at least £500,000 this year for translators, bilingual teaching assistants and support materials. Manchester Academy topped the list with over £670,000.

The funding is not ring-fenced and councils admit it can be spent on “almost anything” within a school’s overall budget. Nationwide, the average payout sits at around £27,418 per school, or roughly £320 per eligible pupil.

This latest education bombshell ties directly into the wider crisis of unchecked migration straining every corner of British life.

As we’ve highlighted, migrants are set to swallow 40% of all new UK homes by 2030, based on Conservative analysis of Office for Budget Responsibility projections. 

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Air Canada CEO Out After Crash — For Not Offering Condolences in Second Language

In the wake of a major airline crash, it’s not unusual for the carrier’s CEO to resign, especially if there were signs that corporate culture may have played a hand in it.

In the case of Air Canada Express Flight 8646, that’s not the case. In fact, it’s pretty much clear at this point that the Air Canada jet had no role in the accident and that some concatenation of events led to a fire truck given clearance to cross a runway as the jet was landing.

Rather, Michael Rousseau is out of a job because he didn’t offer an apology in French as well as English.

The March 22 crash killed both the captain and first officer on board the Bombardier CRJ900, although all 72 passengers and two other crew members survived the flight from Montreal to New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

And while Rousseau put out a four-minute video apology, saying he had the “deepest sorrow for everyone affected,” the Financial Times reported that wasn’t what got people upset.

Instead, it was the fact that the only French words he used were “bonjour” and “merci.”

“Air Canada, the country’s largest airline, is based in majority French-speaking Quebec,” the Financial Times noted.

“Canada is officially a bilingual nation and his message sparked condemnation from senior political leaders, while also stirring longstanding tensions that led Quebec to attempt to become an independent state via referendums in 1980 and 1995.”

And Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney weighed in, because of course he did, and in the worst way possible.

“Companies like Air Canada particularly have a responsibility to always communicate in both official languages regardless of the situation,” he said, according to The Associated Press.

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Cameras capture truckers unable to read road signs, answer basic questions during Florida crackdown

Fox News cameras were embedded with federal safety officials in North Florida, where a ride-along captured troubling encounters with truck drivers who couldn’t read road signs or communicate in English.

Shocking video showed investigators taking numerous truckers out of service for safety violations, with some drivers unable to read basic road signs or communicate in English.

During one encounter, a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper asked a trucker how well he spoke English, to which he replied in Spanish.

When asked if the trucker could speak any English, he replied, “No.”

Troopers said that up to half of truckers at some Florida weigh stations cannot meet English proficiency requirements.

“I try to concentrate on the [signs] they have to read,” said FHP master trooper Craig Lents. “If you are going down the road at 70 miles per hour, and you see that sign, you only see it for a split second.”

In another encounter caught on video, a trooper asked a trucker what a road sign meant.

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Sean Duffy Says Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Allowed Trucking Schools to SELF-CERTIFY

Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during a cabinet meeting today that Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg allowed trucking schools to ‘self-certify.’ He compared it to the ‘Quality Learing Center’ in Minneoplis.

If this is accurate, it would go a long way in explaining the sudden rash of fatalities involving immigrant drivers on American highways.

In the video below, Duffy says:

“If you can’t understand road signs, if you can’t communicate with law enforcement, when you’re pulled over and communicate what’s on your rig, huge problem.”

“But the last administration, Mr. President, they let truck driving schools self-certify. They were qualified to train truck drivers. And so this is like the learing center, where you could pay $800 and uh, you’d get a certificate that you had passed a CDL driving school, and they have no skills, they don’t have the knowledge and they haven’t gone through any of the testing.”

“And then they get licenses and they’re killing Americans on our roads.”

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Woke California professor calls to abolish terms ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ to avoid offending the transgender community

A California professor laid out an argument for tossing out sexual identifiers, as terms like gay and lesbian ‘harms trans people,’ they claimed. 

Brandon Andrew Robinson, an associate professor at the University of California, spoke on the matter with the university while promoting their book, ‘Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom.’

Robinson, who uses they/them pronouns, argued that ‘identities limit us’ and the ongoing creation of unlimited new identities demonstrates how such labels ‘fail to capture the full complexities of gender, sexualities and desire.’ 

They particularly noted hyper-specific identities, such as gynosexual, sapiosexual, asexual or pansexual. 

‘It’s a several-fold argument,’ Robinson told UC Riverside. ‘First, I want people to question why we privilege gender and genitals above all other attributes – like height or race – when we conceptualize our sexual identity.’

They continued on to argue that the term ‘gay,’ referring to a man being attracted to a man, ‘assumes a man is a stable, inherent category.’

‘When history shows the definition of manhood is constantly changing,’ they said.

‘Gender essentialism [the belief that men and women possess inherent, fixed traits determined by biology that define their identity and gender roles] also harms trans people, who often complicate those binary boundaries.’

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Leftist-Globalist BBC Caught AGAIN Doctoring a Speech, This Time by US War Secretary Hegseth, Igniting Another ‘Impartiality’ Row in Britain

The ‘Beeb’ screwed up again – possibly on purpose.

For the leftist-Globalist bosses and crew at the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), it isn’t enough anymore to have highly biased reports filled with editorial content.

Now, they feel the need to go ahead and actually doctor speeches by people they loathe, trying to modify what they are saying, in maneuvers worthy of a George Orwell novel.

The ‘Beeb’ is already on the hook for billions, after deceptively editing a historic J6 speech by Donald J. Trump, as you can read in BBC IS MELTING: British State Broadcaster To Apologize for Doctored Editing of Trump J6 Speech, Under Fire for Its Pro-Hamas, Pro-Trans and Climate Change Biases.

Apparently, the BBC intelligentsia hasn’t learned a thing, so they went ahead and did it again.

Now, they are ‘plunged into a fresh impartiality row’ after altering a speech by US War Secretary Pete Hegseth regarding the military operations in Iran.

Daily Mail reported:

“In the broadcast aired to audiences within Iran, BBC Persian inaccurately translated the US Defense Secretary’s remarks, reporting that Washington intended to bring death to the Iranian ‘people’.

In reality, Mr. Hegseth had specified that the United States was targeting the Iranian ‘regime’.

The BBC, which carried Mr Hegseth’s Pentagon address live on Monday, translated the word ‘regime’ as ‘mardom’, the Persian word for ‘people’, before later issuing a correction.”

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Terror on freeway after Minnesota granted truckers’ license to Somali driver who couldn’t read ROAD SIGNS

Terrifying footage shared on social media showed the truck driving against traffic on US 61 near Troy, Missouri around 8am on Wednesday, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The truck nearly collided with several other cars before finally crossing the median on to the correct side of the road, when it was stopped by police.

The driver, whose name has not been released, had obtained a commercial driver’s license from Minnesota, NewsNation reported.

Police said the driver showed no signs of impairment or medical issues and determined the trucker was going the wrong way because they could not read the road signs.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy addressed the ‘disturbing’ incident in a post on X.

‘We have learned that a truck driver with a Minnesota CDL who couldn’t read basic road signs spent MILES driving the wrong way in an 80 TON truck,’ Duffy wrote.

‘Thanks to Missouri law enforcement, this dangerous trucker is now out of service.’

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Scientists discover oldest form of writing in mysterious Stone Age engravings

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone.

The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media. Archaeologists have discovered Paleolithic glyphs in a German cave that could potentially push back the history of written communication by over 30,000 years, per a rock-solid study in the journal Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences.

According to the researchers, the symbols were engraved on artifacts that dated back some 40,000 years to the Stone Age, when early humans arrived in Europe from Africa and encountered the Neanderthals.

Despite their age, these ancient etchings boasted a complexity comparable to the early stages of the world’s oldest writing system, cuneiform, which originated around 5,000 years ago, the New Scientist reported.

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems,” exclaimed study co-author Ewa Dutkiewicz, an archaeologist at Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Popular Science reported.

Dutkiewicz and her team had came upon this writing revelation while investigating 260 relics discovered in cave repositories in the Swabian Jura, a mountainous region in Southwest Germany. This archaeological treasure trove included flutes, carvings of animals like mammoths, and figurines of animal-human hybrids.

They were etched with a total of 22 different recurring symbols, including a V-shaped notch and lines, crosses and dots.

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