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Teotihuacan

...got the pyramid concept - from the nearby volcano.

Mexico Pictures: The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Teotihuacan, ancient Toltec city and its Pyramid of the Sun [65metres high, 200 metres each side]; Popocatepetl volcano, seen by plane approaching Mexico City; the Pyramid of the Moon [47 metres high] and the broad Avenue of the Dead.

Teotihuacan was built between 600BC and 200BC by the Toltecs [not to be confused with the Aztecs]. Teotihuacan roughly translates as The Place where Gods Gathered. It is a bleak and blasted city of ghosts these days with most of its buildings [the mud and wooden ones] returned to dust, but the site is still awesome in its scale and the pyramids are unbelievable, in spite of the fact that - unlike their Egyptian counterparts - they are not solid stone but earth and rubble mounds dressed with stone.
Teotihuacan is roughly 50kms outside Mexico City so an absolute must-see for capital visitors.

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