Who built Teotihuacan, known as the City of the Gods , and why was it suddenly abandoned?

The city of Teotihuacan reached its heyday around 600 AD, when it covered an area of more than 20 square kilometers and had a population of 200,000. The layout of the city is well organized and the architecture is beautiful, which is stunning. In the center of the city is a north-south avenue that is about 3 kilometers long and 40 meters wide.

This is the famous "Yellow Springs Avenue". It is said that when the Aztecs conquered the city, they found that there were platforms at intervals on both sides of the avenue, which looked like tombs, so they gave it this name.

In fact, these platforms are all the ruins of the temple of the past. They are arranged in an orderly manner, but their height rises with the slope of the avenue. According to some calculations, the ratio of the distance between all temple sites is the proportion of the distance between the nine planets of the solar system.

In other words, the layout of the entire "Huangquan Avenue" is actually a microcosm of the solar system.

At the end of the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon "Yellow Spring Avenue" sits the world-famous Pyramid of the Moon. One kilometer to the left of the Pyramid of the Moon is the Pyramid of the Sun, considered the symbol of Mesoamerica.

With a height of 225 meters and a width of 220 meters, the Pyramid of the Sun is on par with the Pyramid of Khufu, but with a slightly different shape. It is divided into 5 floors, which are reduced upwards to become a cone, and the top of the tower is a temple dedicated to the sun god. There is a huge square next to the two pyramids, which is the place where people gathered to worship the gods, and each sacrifice to the sun god required tens of thousands of living hearts.

The two pyramids have been painted and decorated with red clay in the past, which is extremely gorgeous and magnificent. At the southern end of the avenue is the temple of Quetzal Koyatl, dedicated to the god of rain. The walls around the temple are intricately carved with feathered serpent motifs, with smooth lines and a stunning level of craftsmanship.

The builder of a great culture, who built such a great culture? Some believe that it was the Toltecs. They entered Mexico around the 4th century AD and built the city of Teotihuacan in the 6th century, which was later destroyed by the Tsitsimecs, who in turn replaced them by the Aztecs.

Some even believe that the city of Teotihuacan was formed as early as the Stone Age.

If this is the case, then what about these intelligent architects? Did disease, natural disasters or war destroy them? In fact, even the whereabouts of the Toltecs are not fully understood, they suddenly disappeared around the 8th century AD, and their whereabouts have not been known ever since.

Some believe that their cruel methods of sacrifice led to the depopulation and their extermination by foreign tribes. No one can say what the real history is.

Zimbabwe means "Stone Town" in the local Aboriginal language. These stone buildings, which collapsed at the top, cover an area of 24 hectares.

Scholars have yet to determine who built this once-thriving city or why it was suddenly abandoned.

There is simply no ability to design and build such a magnificent building. However, this thriving ** center,

The site is located 300 kilometers south of the capital of Zimbabwe on the African continent. Zimbabwe means "Stone Town" in the local Aboriginal language. These stone buildings, which collapsed at the top, cover an area of 24 hectares.

The ancestors of the locals, who were not very culturally developed, simply simply did not have the ability to design and build such magnificent buildings. However, when and for what reason was this prosperous ** center abandoned?

I think it was built by some ancient civilization, but it was destroyed later.

Probably, ancient civilizations designed and built such magnificent buildings. It's just that it was destroyed later.

According to historical records, the inhabitants of the ancient city of Teotihuacan first appeared in 800 BC, and by 450 AD, the city had a population of 200,000 at its peak. At that time, agriculture was quite developed, and the handicraft industry also had a certain scale. The ancient city gradually became a religious, political, economic, trade, and social and cultural center.

The influence of Teotihuacan City has also extended to Central American countries such as Guatemala and is one of the world's metropolises. It wasn't until the beginning of the 8th century that the ancient city was suddenly abandoned into ruins and its inhabitants disappeared with it. There are many theories about why the ancient city of Teotihuacan went from prosperity to demise.

One theory is that the Toltecs invaded and burned the country, and the inhabitants migrated south to a wide area of Guatemala; Another theory is that due to the plague epidemic, the inhabitants migrated north and created the Tula culture.

Scientists have not yet come to a unified conclusion about the solar pyramid and the lunar pyramid. Archaeologists have found that under the foundation of the Pyramid of the Sun is a natural cave, and many ancient sacrificial relics have been found in the four secret chambers at the end of the cave, but there are no coffins. Therefore, they believe that, unlike the pyramids of Egypt, the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan is not a mausoleum, but a place of worship to the gods.

In recent years, some astronomers have also put forward a new view that the orientation of the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid in Teotihuacan has some subtle relationship with the astrological coordinates of the Milky Way. Mexican scientists have also tried to solve millennial mysteries by using state-of-the-art meson detectors to capture perspectives inside the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan. Either way, the exquisite frescoes, carvings and painted pottery at the Teotihuacan site are a treasure trove of Mexican ancient Indian culture, the result of the hard work, courage and ingenuity of the Indians.

The pyramids were constructed mainly of indigenous limestone and granite brought in from abroad. Limestone is mainly used for interior purposes. For example, the Pyramid of Gufbu used more than 2 million megaliths, most of which weighed about 2 tons, and it is estimated that it took about 23,300 years to build, and 100,000 people participated in the construction; However, they also agreed that the so-called construction was not carried out from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, but during the three months of the year, when the Nile was overflowing and could not be cultivated.

It is estimated that the pyramid was built with 2.3 million stones. Suppose a worker works 10 hours a day, all year round, and they need to lay out 31 stones per hour (about two minutes to put one piece) in order to complete it in 20 years. But if the work is carried out only during the slack season, the speed of the workers must be increased to four pieces per minute, about two hundred and forty pieces per hour.

In the end there is no lifting of any of them.

Tools, just primitive tree trunks, how did people carry stones weighing up to two tons to build such a huge tower?

The Strip of Death is located at the foot of Teotihuacan's iconic Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon. It is about 2,500 meters long, like the middle line of a city. At that time, I don't know how many people were sent by priests to the temple to worship the gods on this road. Hence the name "Avenue of the Dead".

The Death Boulevard, which runs north-south and another avenue that runs east-west, divides the entire city of Teotihuacan into four parts, with priests and nobles representing the ruling class occupying the closest lot to the pyramids and away from the noisy markets.

In its heyday, Teotihuacan was one of the world's largest cities. It is estimated that there are more than 200,000 inhabitants covering an area of 20 square kilometres. The rigor of the city's architectural structure was emulated by the Aztecs who later built the city of Tenochtitlan.

The ** avenue running through the north and south is 4 kilometers long and 45 meters wide, which is an important part of the ancient city and is known as the road of death. Pyramids, temples, pavilions, and alleys are evenly distributed on both sides of the Avenue of Death. Probably for religious reasons, the southern end of the street was empty and there were no buildings.

Archaeologists have no way to verify why the Avenue is called the Avenue of Death. It has been explained that the Boulevard of Death got its name because of the sacrifice of living people to the gods at that time, the bodies were cremated in the streets (there was no burial custom in Teotihuacán, and not a single grave was found in the city).

The Pyramid of the Sun and Moon is a major component of the ruins of the ancient city of Teotihuacán. The ancient city of Teotihuacan was an important center of political and religious activity in the Americas before Columbus discovered the New World, and one of the splendid Indian cultures. It has the reputation of the city of the gods.

When the Aztec culture arose in the Central Plateau of the Americas, the ancient city of Teotihuacan was in ruins. When people come to the silent and vast ruins of the ancient city, they are in awe when they see the magnificent architectural remains.