Underneath ancient Mexican temple, archeologists find an even older one

That’s kind of how religious structures in places where people have lived for a sufficiently long time work in general, too. Look at churches in Europe - underneath, assuming they didn’t just re-purpose the original building, there’s usually the remains of a pagan temple (which in turn was built at the location of a previous one, often). Various neolithic ritual sites, too - occupied for thousands of years, made more elaborate over time. People keep reusing sites for the same purpose, even as the particular religions practiced there change, and rebuild or enlarge as resources allow.

Or even in the same building - I don’t know how many churches I’ve been in that were re-purposed pagan temples that kept the earlier structure (and even details, sometimes), or were built out of the pieces of a preexisting temple. Even some fairly modern churches built in the last few centuries turned out to be the sites of forgotten pagan temples.

Yes.
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