We joined a tour group on our third day in Mexico and visited Teotihuacán, the site of the Sun and Moon Pyramids, and a city that was as huge (largest in the New World at the time) as it was influential in its time. A combination of Wikipedia and my Lonely Planet guide tell me that Teotihuacán was established around 100 BC before it was systematically sacked and burned around 550 AD. The actual name Teōtīhuacān is a Nahuatl word, given centuries after the fall of the city, reflecting a creation myth meaning "place where gods were born" - because when the Aztecs re-discovered it, they believed it was the place that all the gods had sacrificed themselves to start the sun moving at the beginning of the "fifth world" (remember the Aztec Sun Stone?)
The size of this place is hard to capture on film!
The size of this place is hard to capture on film!
Templo de Quetzalcóatl
Templo de Quetzalcóatl
Standing in front on the Sun Pyramid, offering native English speaking skills to enthusiastic Mexican students
Taking a break from selling souvenirs in the punishing heat
Part of the complex
Abdul walking towards the Sun Pyramid (the world's third largest pyramid)
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