A car with a local guide drove my mother and I to the Teotihuacán archaeological site, about 30 miles (50 km) outside Mexico City. The structures here are the remains of the largest pre-Aztec city in Mexico. Teotihuacán means The City of the Gods in the Nahuatl language. At its height (ca. 500 CE), it encompassed some 8 square miles (20 square km) and supported a population estimated at 125,000–200,000, making it, at the time, one of the largest cities in the world. It was the region’s major economic as well as religious center. When we visited, the site centered on the two main pyramids, the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, connected by the Avenue of the Dead. Not too many people were there, and one could freely climb
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