Temple of the Sun in the foreground, the Temple of the Moon behind it

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Teotihuacan- The Ruins of the First Great Civilization in Central Mexico

July 5th 2010
Today we took a bus to Teotihuacan (tay-oh-tea-wa-kahn). It’s one of the most popular places to visit. We toured the ruins of a civilization that lived there 2,000 years ago, before the Aztecs. When the Aztecs came upon the ruins, hundreds of years after the people who had built them were gone, they thought they were the remains of a city of the gods, mistaking the pyramids for tombs. That’s w ... read more

North America » Mexico » Morelos » Cuernavaca

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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