Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan
The Ancients
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The Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan
Annabeth: Teotihuacan has an avenue that's, we don't really call it the street of the dead, but I was encouraged by a mentor in mind to really think of it as an avenue. The pyramid of the moon is in line with a mountain nowadays called Cerro Gordo, which is not a nice name, it just means fat mountain. Annabeth: What we see is unlike a Maya city where a king dies and then they build a pyramid over him, or the king's building the pyramid while he's alive, you know, like the Egyptians and then his bodies put in there,. In this case it's the military they're celebrating, at the very end
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