My reference was to the peaceful civilization that existed long before the violent thugs so vicariously began coming out of the woodwork...but, yes, they did later develope into more agressive cultures...partly due to the bands of what we would now call renegades...

Too bad that Cortez and those guys destroyed all of the ancient records, that would now reveal so much...

umm sounds like a place where you get awakened and get a will of your own not just one that lets you follow but to make your own decisions

my questions is by whom or what lol

If you're up for some dry reading, "Mexico" and "The Maya" by David Coe were the two text books we read in my Mesoamerican cultures class. It's a fascinating history to this continent, it's just written by a PhD so its a little dry. Pictures are great though.

You will find we do know a lot about those cultures, and they were not peaceful by any means. The Toltecs, who were after Teotihuacan but before the Aztecs (contemporaneous with the Maya) were famous for their skulls racks, monuments with carved and real skulls to intimidate their rivals.

Human sacrifice was also a reality, although not in the blood-lustful way some movies and magazines like to portray it. It was simply a part of their culture to appease the gods.

viva la *Drop-kicks chihuahua*

MAYBE THEY WILL FIND the taco bell dog....

This evidence is the biggest clue as to who built the pyramid complex, possibly mellenia before the Aztecs had their golden age... hence, "The Place Where Men Become Gods" sounds like, a peaceful metropolis, where culture and learning were in the forefront of the civilization there...

There is so much that we can learn from these ancient sites...perhaps the golden age that these ruins represent, is still eminateting from the magic of its existence and that's one of the reasons it was built for permanence...to show us that living a peaceful existence, in harmony with others, can be achieved and lead to our own golden age...

Let's hope the archeologists can keep discovering everything they can about this amazing site. Maybe this latest news will provide more answers before too much development & tourist trampling obliterates important clues of another thriving culture that didn’t leave written records-that we’ve found yet. This was once an immense & powerful empire that seemingly disappeared without agreement on how it happened.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~Santayana
Studying history is necessary to avoid repeating past mistakes & could not be truer now given our global predicaments that seem to be getting worse before getting better.

Teotihuacan is Mexico's oldest major archeological site and during its heyday in 500 AD, the city was home to some 200,000 people, rivaling the size of ancient Rome at that time.
Lol, the Roman Empire ended in 476 AD.

Wow that article was not written by an archaeologist was it? The civilization that built Teotihuacan had great influence all over Mesoamerica. The cave was in use before the pyramid was built, in fact it is thought it was built there because of the cave. Teotihuacan is one of the only cities in the New World that was built on a planned grid system.

In the '30's or something some guy wanted to spruce the Pyramid of the Sun up for some anniversary in Mexico, and betting that there was another pyramid underneath the present one (as there often is) he used dynamite to try to get to it and badly defaced the monument.

...dubbed "The Place Where Men Become Gods" by the Aztecs who believed it was a divine site.

The city was home to some 200,000 people, rivaling the size of ancient Rome at that time, according to archeologists.

I just hope they don't find whatever killed them, because it will probably be really pissed off if they wake it up.