Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards · Aired Oct 8, 2026
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About three years ago the Mexican government bought codices from a family that had kept them for about 500 years, including one about the building of Teotihuacan, for about $250,000.
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INAH announced the San Andres Tetepilco acquisition in March 2024 for 9.5 million pesos plus VAT, financed by private patrons. The historical manuscript covers Tenochtitlan from 1300 to 1611, not the building of Teotihuacan. The place, approximate price and government-financing description are conflated. The family custody account is not an independently documented five-hundred-year chain.
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Is it true that about three years ago the Mexican government bought codices from a family that had kept them for about 500 years, including one about the building of Teotihuacan, for about $250,000?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. 5 million pesos plus VAT, financed by private patrons. The historical manuscript covers Tenochtitlan from 1300 to 1611, not the building of Teotihuacan. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards, aired Oct 8, 2026, at 45:27. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is inah.gob.mx, linked below.
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