Pictures of Azec Ruins


Aztec Ruins photographs.

The capital of the Mexica Nation was Tenochtitlan, unfortunately, everything was mostly destroyed, even if their sculpture was monumental, like the aztec calendar. Ironically, the pyramids that survived, although in ruins, were the ones of Teotihuacan, an ancient city 1,000 years older than the Mexica pyramids. This civilization spread out from the northern borders of mesoamerica to deep inside the Mayan regions. Unfortunately, little is known about the people who built a city larger than it's contemporary Rome.
This is a picture of the ruins of the pyramid of the moon, the second largest structure in the ancient city.

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View of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at night

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One of the sadness about tourism is it's affluence of thousands hurts the ruins, and someday the climbing access will have to be closed in order to preserve the structure.


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Crowds of visitors walk along the Street of the Dead
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The most famous, and largest structure in the city of Teotihuacan (city of the gods), is the ruins of the pyramid of the sun. Recent excavations have revealed burials in both pyramids, the moon pyramid and the sun pyramid.


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The Pyramid of the Sun silhouetted against the setting sun
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The Pyramid of the Sun crowded with tourists for the spring equinox
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The spring equinox is an event worth visiting, following ancient rituals the ceremonies take place throughout Mexico, against what many people think, this undeniable expression of historic brotherhood to the past is still quite popular in Mexico.Almost in every sacred ground the equinox ceremony is performed, and people come from around the world. The most popular sites to visit durring the equinox are Teotuhuacan, The Mayan Pyramid of KuKulcan, Monte Alban, Tickal, where sometimes over 15,000 people gather together, some just to see, others to remember our grandfathers ceremonies. If you want to know that modern Aztecs are up to, click here to find out.

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