The City of Teotihuacan is found about 2 hours north of Mexico City. It was the most populated city of pre-columbine America. The whole site includes several temples. This is a picture of the palace, which is said to be more of an administrative building. The decorations that depict jaguars and quetzales are relatively well conserved, considering the city was built a century before Christ.
The city contains three different plazas. Two of them have altars in the middle.
The main attraction and highlight of the site is the Pyramid of the Sun. This is an incredibly massive pyramid. It has a height of around 71 meters and it is gigantic.
I decided to climb it. But I decided to not look back or around until I got to the top. I did not want to see the view until I got to the very top. I believe I counted around 235 steps, and it was hard no to turn around to see the view... But in the end it all paid off as I turned around and saw this:
The other pyramid in the complex is the Pyramid of the Moon. It is smaller than the pyramid of the Sun, and it is located at the ned of the Avenue of the Dead.
There is a museum on site and it has a very detailed replica of what the city must have looked like when it was at its highest point in development. One of the things that I found amazing was that archeologists have found no weapons in the area, meaning that the city was peaceful. There is evidence to believe that the purposes of the city were purely religious.
The Avenue of the Dead was called that because the first discoverers thought the mounds on the sides were tombs. It has now been discovered that they were not tombs, but other buildings that served religious or administrative purposes.
The Pyramid of the Moon.
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