7Why Was The City Of Teotihuacan Abandoned?
This ancient, abandoned city is located 48 kilometers from Mexico City. It spans an area of 20 square kilometers. It includes ruined, deserted palaces, pyramids, sophisticated irrigation systems, and roads.
Indeed, they were discovered deserted by the Aztecs in the 1100s who called it Teotihuacan. (In English, it’s “the place where one becomes a god.”) There’s no written record regarding its past but it was reportedly abandoned circa AD 700.
Before that, however, it had been a thriving city with almost 200,000 residents. It featured the Pyramid of the Sun, the third largest on the planet, the Pyramid of the Moon, the Avenue of the Dead, palaces, and temples. No one knows why the city was abandoned.
Could the soil have become barren? Was there a civil war? Were they attacked by other tribes? All we know is the original residents left following an unexplained citywide fire.
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