Avenue of the Dead

Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacán. The Avenue of the Dead was drawn out perpendicularly to the principal axis of the solar temple. Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacán. UNESCO World Heritage. Inscribed 1987. IMG00138p1

Teotihuacán

July 29th 1965
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 (c<em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%!;(MISSING)">a. 500 CE), it encompassed some 8 square miles (20 ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more

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