egypt has no monopoly of pyramids

Yeah, Egypt has no monopoly of pyramids. Just recently, i have watched Discovery Channel and was surprised when i learned that Mexico has its own mysterious temples and pyramids too! I have never been interested in Aztec culture. And i have encountered the word "Teotihuacan" a few times but i never bothered to check what is behind it until i saw it on TV; and so, i research in the internet and some of my findings amazed me.


In Nahuatl, Teotihuacan means 'The City of the Gods', or 'Where Men Become Gods'.

The plazas, avenues, and great pyramids of the city of Teotihuacan were laid out as a symbolic sacred landscape of artificial foothills and mountains.

The complex of approximately 600 pyramids of various sizes is dominated by the great Pyramid of the Sun which, it was discovered in 1971, was built over a natural cave with four chambers (cf. Sacred Caves). Mesoamerican belief saw caves as gateways to the spiritual world (called Xibalba by the Maya). The cave contained remains of offerings and may have been a focus for shamanistic rituals from a much earlier period. There can be no doubt that the Pyramid of the Sun was deliberately built over the sacred cave.

Teotihuacan was probably Mexico's biggest ancient city, with perhaps 200,000 residents at its peak in the 6th century, it was virtually abandoned by the 7th century.


The Pyramid of the Sun, built in the 2nd century AD, dominates the landscape of the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico.

Teotihuacan -the place of the Gods - was the first true city in Mesoamerica, at its peak - 600 AD - it housed more than 100,000 people.

It is the third largest pyramid in the world and the largest in the Teotihuacan complex.

It's sides are 700 feet long, it is about 200 feet high, and is actually a succession of pyramids built one on top the other over the centuries. The pyramids and many other structures at Teotihuacan are stepped, rather than smooth sided like the Egyptian pyramids, and the stones of which they are made are not so large that there would be a mystery about how they were moved as there is with the Egyptian pyramids, the Moai statues of Easter Island, and the Nasca Lines.

At its peak time - most of Teotihuacan was plastered, and the pyramids were painted bright red.

There are many pyramids and temples in Mexico but it would cost me too much time if i post 'em all here.

Actually, i'm just bored. My "ka-berks" are not here. Jasmin is on day off, Liv is lost in Bohol with Caecent. While Cristina is busy pounding on the keyboard of her computer to meet the lapsed 6 p.m. deadline. *sigh*