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That scenario might be a cautionary account of the fall of New York after default. In fact, it is the history of a pre-Columbian city called Teotihuacan (the Aztecs' word for "the place the gods call home"), once a metropolis of as many as 200,000 inhabitants 33 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Archaeologists long regarded the city -famed for its Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun and avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between...
This fresh view of Teotihuacan is based on a combination of archaeological investigation and computer analysis. Mexican, U.S. and Canadian researchers, under the leadership of the University of Rochester's Rene Millon, have spent years mapping the city and collecting more than a million artifacts, mostly pottery shards and tools but also human and animal remains. After identifying and cataloguing the pieces from each location, the scientists ran their data through a series of computer programs designed by Physicist turned Archaeologist George Cowgill of Brandeis University. These enable them to determine, for example, if a particular site...
...formidable musical and technical dimensions that Caldwell has wanted to stage for years. In 1971, just to get the feel of the thing, she went to Mexico and retraced the victory trail of the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez. Last week she was back again, studying the pyramids in Teotihuacan...
After dinner, a trip to the pyramids of Teotihuacan, 40 minutes outside the city, to see the son et lumiére spectacle drops the spectator nearly 2,000 years back in time. A bit off the beaten track for tourists is the Plaza Garibaldi, where wandering mariachi bands play, adding the vibrancy of guitars to the blare of trumpets...
Archaeologists generally have accepted five Mexican cultures-Mayan, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Totonac and Olmec-as being the oldest in North America, and have dated them around A.D. 300. But last week tests performed at the University...