Teotihuacan: The Magnificent Ancient City in Central Mexico
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2023
- Teotihuacan was one of the most impressive cities of the ancient world. Although it was founded several centuries before the year 0, and was inhabited till after the year 700, its main years of occupation were from the years 0 till 500, at which point it was ritually burnt and largely abandoned. A thousands years later the Aztecs would worship at Teotihuacan, and Moctezuma II, the Aztec king in charge when the Spanish arrived, frequently came here on religious pilgrimages.
This video just scratches the surface of this place and there will be more to come about the details of this, one of Mesoamerica’s most impressive cities.
Here is my video about Cuicuilco:
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I can’t believe there are only 2k views. I have the pleasure of knowing Teotihuacan, and other ancient sites. Thanks for sharing!
23:59 The sector known as “la ciudadela”. The aerial pictures of that part of Teotihuacán look so intricate and perfectly symmetrical. And, if you walk behind that complex, (which is approximately 1,200 feet across) you’ll see some strange carved stones scattered, although you aren’t allowed in, you can still see them. The type of rocks that many like to refer to as “megaliths”, and many people agree that the Teotihuacanos were too primitive to make them.
Interesting, something to look at next time. The city is so enormous, there are so many places to wander. And some areas look like you shouldn't go there as a tourist, but then you see some guide wandering out from between a narrow crack with 20 people behind him and you realize you can go to lots of places.
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True! I was hoping you would show the buried, nearly intact house near the templo de Los caracoles emplumados. It May not has he been open to the public due to “Covid”. I remember not appreciating that place when I went there. I was bored!! Now look at me, watching videos. LoL.
Teotihuacanos made several megalithic sculptures, why would they be too primitive?
I’ve always been intrigued by Teo, especially the artwork. Thank you so much for the video 👊🏻👍🏻.
I love how the term "Classic" for the classic period is used for the splendour years of Teotihuácan. These ruins do convey a feeling of good proportion, and stark serenity. I recently visited Xochicalco and Tula, and I can see how Teotihuacan was the model and ideal for these small cities. It must've been apalling for people coming from smaller pueblos and villages, and a memory not easy to forget.
Indeed, Teotihuacan was the model for many other civilizations for many years, and even inspired whole other empires like the Toltecs of Tula. If you notice, the two largest pyramids of Tula are at the same angle to each other as those of the two main pyramids of Teotihuacan. However! That's only one part of a huge complex story. I will address the other parts of this later. For Instance, Teotihuacan once invaded Tikal! Kt goes on and on. But indeed Teotihuacan id one of the most important cities to be aware of.
also "classic" is oof, quite an imperfect name for a period, there was so much going on across time and space which makes such simple classifications pretty much irrelevant... but eh, you gotta simply it somehow, right? just to be able to begin to explain any of it?
@@pyramidreview8664 Xochicalco is my favorite one
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Awesome stuff right here!
truly awesome, it literally inspires awe
@@pyramidreview8664 awe inspiring indeed!
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Gracias por compartir el programa cultural muy bonito y de lujo, saludos desde la ciudad de México ❤️😘🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰 thank you Teotihuacan Is a number one priority
Gracias!!! 🙏🙏🙏 Teotihuacan is muy importante, verdad! 😊
I was there in '69..I was a youngster but I have faded snapshots. There were no fences or gates back then. People don't realize how steep.and dangerous those steps are.
It’s always interesting to see how the sites evolve over the decades, I always pick up old photo books if I come across them. There used to be a road going right through the middle of Chichen Itza, totally unimaginable today.
Amazing site, was lucky enough to go there last year. Videos don't do its size and granduer justice.
Love it! Was excited to see a new video!
A failure of my modern brain I suppose, but it's amazing to think of so many people in one place back then. I'm always curious what technology they had, in terms of labor saving devices. Animal power perhaps, etc. Thanks for the video!
When the video started I thought "oh thats a hawk", but then I heard it again and said "no thats a screaming child". Imagine to my surprise that its the synthesis of those things.
sounds much crazier and like a wild animal in real life, I have background noise cancelation on all the time in this video to negate wind and crowd noises
First of all thanks for the series. Great job. And it is a delight to watch the ancient cities of mesoamerica with your eyes:) I got 2 qestions if I may. 1. About this video: Quetzalkoatl is a Toltec diety so far as I know. How come there are carvings of him in Teotihuacan's old layer pyramid? Toltec existed around X century AD when Teotihuacan at his finest state existed before that in 0-500 AD. Any scientific explanation? 2. A general question: throughout your journey did you notice any fake structures/statues. If so, how common it is in Mexico to present newlybuilt "ruins" as a historical heritage? if any at all. Thank you once again. Envy you in a good way:)
1. The entire concept of the Toltecs as a historical empire in the eleventh century is complicated and questionable at best. Much recent research suggests that there simply was no large empire around central Mexico at that time. I will address this next time I can get out to Tula to shoot a video. I recommend watching “The Trouble With Toltecs” by Ancient Americas for more information about that. But, indeed, the archeological record suggests that the cult of Quetzalcoatl originated (or at least first culminated) in Teotihuacan for the first time. But I must reiterate that this is a very complicated topic that won’t fit into a single youtube comment and I am leaving much unsaid.
2. About fake things, there is one that stands out. In Tikal in Guatemala there is a monolith from the post-classic era, after the great collapse, which had writing on it that proved impossible for scholars to read. They eventually determined that it was made in the post-classic period, after all the literate people had died, by a new ruling elite who pretended to know how to write and make inscriptions, just to wield that as a method of power over the illiterate peasants. But it turned out that the new rulers were illiterate too, and also didn’t know what they were writing. It proved to be just gibberish, crafted by illiterate rulers to convince their subjects that they still understood the magic of writing.
3. As for newly built ruins, sites are not made fake like that, simply because there isn’t enough money to do so, nor any political motivation. There are hundreds of real ruins; nobody has the time or money or reason to make fake ones. There is barely enough money to investigate the sites which exist, and there are unfortunately many grand sites, and even entire civilizations, which remain unexcavated. Ironically, I have read that some scholars criticize Teotihuacan as being a wild west Hollywood set of an ancient ruin, where the main boulevard is restored for tourists and everything behind it is left unrestored and unexplored. There might be some truth to that.
4. As for why Teotihuacan was restored in an unprofessional manner, that is also a very complicated topic of discussion, but it has to do with the forsaken dictator Porfirio Diaz and his corrupt archeologist friends (such as Leopoldo Batres) who were trying to restore certain archeological sites such as Teotihuacan and Mitla before 1910, the centennial of Mexican rebellion against Spanish colonial rule, in order to appeal to the wider world during the grand festivities they planned for that time. That year also saw the start of the Mexican Revolution against Diaz and his system of government. So like I said, it is very complicated, but it’s safe to say the archeologists of that time didn’t do the best work, for politically inspired reasons.
5. Overall, since the Revolution of 1910, I have to say that the Mexican archeological authorities have been very honest and responsible and have not tried to present any false narratives to the public, as far as I am aware. They seem to spend their money on legitimate scientific excavations and presenting their findings to the public in an honest way, and I am very thankful for that.
Thanks for the interesting reply
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Artists and sculptors were valued members of Meso societies.
What's interesting about Teotihuacán is that it became rich with the obsidian trade, and there are lots of people still carving obsidian there today (to sell to tourists).
Ah, Teotihuacán. Méxicos true world wonder, rather than Chichén Itzá.
Btw, have you heard of the sonrisa de piedra verde?? The skull of a Maya women who lived in Teotihuacán, but most intriguingly, she had some sort of jade tooth implant and copper inlay like things (decorations maybe) on 2 of her teeth. I suspect it’s not a famous find because most people find human remains repulsive.
No! Very interesting. I made another video about Cañada de la Virgen and there was also a very prominent female Maya warrior burial in the main pyramid, who was almost 1000 years older than the pyramid itself. Those Maya ladies really left an impression across México!
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Yup, I really like the aesthetic of classic Maya women. And the aesthetic of postclassic Mexica men. It sounds weird, but based on the murals. Maya women’s clothing seems more interesting than the Nahua women’s clothing. The opposite for the men though.
@@frankomendizabal2348 nahuatl huipiles are beautiful!
This maybe a dumb question, but did Teo have a ball court? I can’t seem to find pics online. Thx
Good question! They haven't found one. It has been theorized that the płaza around the Pyramid of Quetzalcoat may have been used as one, but it is completely the wrong shape. A less likely candidate is the 2km long Avenue of the dead. The lack of one is quite mysterious. Cantona, the city which usurped Teotihaucan as the most populous city and trading hub in central Mexico in the late classic period, had dozens of ball courts!
Wow, thank you. My intrigue with Teo has now been taken to the next level! So interesting 👍🏻👊🏻
New hat!
Anyone think the Tlaloc representation at Teo is the spitting image of The Prime Dirty from South America ?
They do both have that fang thing going on
@@pyramidreview8664 You see it huh ? Centuries of stylization ?
@@pyramidreview8664 and "googly" eyes. ? Dilation from San Pedro cacti ?
The history of the indigenous peoples in the Americas is much, much older than a few thousand years. The Hopi people tell that they arrived in the America’s about 30,000 years ago when the continent that they were living on, Lemuria, sank under water. They claim to be the ancestors of the Maya. We judge the Maya, Aztecs, Inca’s and others on the traces that we find. But when we dig our way from the present to the past, we must know that the Earth is suffering from a cycle of seven recurring natural disasters. That is told in the Popol Vuh. These disasters create a cycle of civilizations. There are four primitive civilizations, sometimes mentioned a sun or world era. The next civilization lives in the fifth sun. This becomes eventually a high developed civilization that disappeared 20,000 years ago due to the next recurring, thus predictable but inescapable disaster that is caused by the ninth planet in our solar system. That planet orbits our sun in an eccentric orbit hence it is only a short period close to our sun and its planets s it crosses the ecliptic planet at a very high speed. This high developed civilizations has built sturdy monuments all over the world and they must have buried knowledge about themselves and the world history deep in the ground. High in the mountains they have built shelters or surviving places for a selected number of people. Like Machu Picchu in Peru. The Aztec sun stone is a warning for this event is known as Quetzalcoatl, Tonatiuh, Xiuhcoatl or Nibiru in other regions. Much more details about this cycle of natural disasters and many images can be found in an e-book. "Planet 9 = Nibiru". Search: invisible nibiru 9
I'm curious to know how far away is the "Olmec" site of Tlatilco ? A day's walk for an indigenous merchant ?
Hmmmmmmmm, I think it might have been possible to do it in a day if part of the journey would be by canoe over lake Texcoco. Otherwise it would be quite a long day, especially if you are carrying things.
@@pyramidreview8664 IMHO Trade travel was continual, much by foot in the mountainous terrain. Thousands on the pathways. But I have only traveled there in the maps of books.Simply put, people moved goods ?
@@pyramidreview8664 Did they have canoes to cross Texcoco ? Do representations exist ? As an old sailor I'm a big believer but can't prove it.
@@craigmiller4528 Definitely! There are a few good theories that humans first arrived in the America by boat along the coast more than ten thousand years ago, and they were a commonly known and widespread technology. When the Spanish arrived at the lake it is estimated there were more than 100k canoes there, and the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was built largely on artificial islands that were constructed with the aid of canoes, and filled with canals that made transportation of people and goods easier. Teotihaucan was earlier of course but I am sure they had them in those days too
@@pyramidreview8664 I read a story about a Mayan Merchant in a canoe answering a question of one of Columbus' crew. Of course the answer given was "I don't understand" in Quiche but don't know if it's true. Archeologists dislike to admit boats because there's no evidence, well yeah, they were wood but equally I have only seen one ancient representation. It was from an Australian cave painting. I've not seen one on a pottery vessel or quilca in the Americas. Thanks for your input ! I have been interested and read on ancient Americans for 50 some years. Still learning.
Year "zero"? Do you mean year 1 CE or year 1 BCE? AFAIK, no one anywhere starts their calendars in "year zero."
Teotihuacán: the Place Where Men Became Gods (pronounced "teh-oh-tee-wah-kahn")
There's so much to observe and and analyze. Renowned American engineer Hugh Harleston surveyed the site for many years and wrote impressive scientific papers and a book about it.
Teotihuacán features:
- Precessional math
- 19.5 (tetrahedral geometry)
- Sheets of industrial-grade mica under some structures
- Pools of mercury under some structures
- pi and other mathematical constants
- Astronomical alignments
- Reflecting pools used for earthquake prediction
- Scale model of the solar system
Ah man, My next episode about Teotihuacan will go in depth into intense mathematical calculations about the pyramids and city itself, hold on to yourself
@@pyramidreview8664 Awesome. I just subscribed so I'll get notified, thanks!
@@RogueReplicant As I was editing this I realized I explained but 10% of what I understood. lol
Anyway I'll do my best to share what I know
Great video, can’t wait to go someday. For viewers: any cement joint you see with the little stones inlaid is reconstructed.
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I'm not sure how you all function and how you rationalize the changes that have occurred in the world. If you look on a map you will find that Teotihuacan is just about 10km east of Mexico City. It used to be an hours drive north of Mexico City, about 100km and the North End of Lake Zumpango. The lake is now just a lagoon, even though it existed just a few years ago. This is confirmed at the start of this video which was made before the city moved.
You just chant, "There is no spiritual reality, there is no spirituality?"
Where the city is now was the middle of Lake Texcoco during ancient times.
It's still a very important place, spiritually. All around Teotihuacan are all kinds of various spiritual retreats and sacred caves, shamans, and everything else.
i dont understand your point
It looks like a old dead power plant not much to see unless you knew how it worked.