Teotihuacán

Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán, Mexico. This 66 m/216 ft high pyramid made of coarse red volcanic rock was built by the Teotihuacán civilization at the beginning of the first millennium. Located 50 km/31 mi north of Mexico City, Teotihuacán (‘City of the Gods’) was the largest city in the New World prior to Spanish colonization.

Huge ancient city in central Mexico, founded about 300 BC, about 32 km/20 mi north of modern Mexico City. Known as the ‘metropolis of the gods’, it reached its zenith in the 5th-6th centuries AD. As a religious centre of Mesoamerica, it contained two great pyramids and the temple of Quetzalcoatl. It is one of the best-excavated archaeological sites in Mexico.