Teotihuacan in 2003

Me at Teotihuacan in 2003 with the grand pyramids of the sun and moon behind me. I have been to this magnificent place only 30 minutes outside of Mexico City several times and each time I’ve been overwhelmed by the sheer size, majesty and grandeur of this place. At its height this City of the Gods (who else could have built it asked the Aztecs) had a population of well over 100,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest populated cities in the world, circa 500 AD. No one knows who originally constructed this architecturally significant wonder with its huge pyramids, Avenue of the Dead and artistic, colorful murals. Likely a religious and cultural center of an unknown highly sophisticated civilization it was sacked and burned and left abandoned until the Aztecs happened upon it and occupied this monumental center, claiming it as their own. The pyramids rival anything in Egypt and must be seen to be believed.