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unusual facts about Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan



Chinese pyramids

They have flat tops, and thus are more similar in shape to the Teotihuacan pyramids north-east of Mexico City, Mexico than to the pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

Geography of Mesoamerica

The Valley of Mexico, location of Lake Texcoco, was the home for several important cultures, including Cuicuilco, Teotihuacan, Tula (Toltec), and the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

Leonardo López Luján

As part of his research at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, he co-directed with William L. Fash and Linda Manzanilla the Xalla Palace excavation project and also worked with Saburo Sugiyama and Rubén Cabrera on the Pyramid of the Moon Project.

Metro Indios Verdes

The station has many entrances and exits, and it connects with many bus and microbuses routes, most of them serving areas in the Estado de México such as Lechería, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Texcoco, towns like Tepexpan and Otumba, and the archaeological zone of Teotihuacán.

Mexico

In pre-Columbian Mexico many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before first contact with Europeans.

Salon Teotihuacan

In addition to Maribel Guardia, other Mexican celebrities who have entertained at the Salon Teotihuacan have included Angélica María, Vicente Fernández, Antonio Aguilar, Pepe Aguilar, Lupita D'Alessio, Gloria Trevi, Paulina Rubio, David Bisbal, Vargas de Tecalitlán, Alejandra Guzmán and Angélica Vale.

Spearthrower Owl

In 2003, George Cowgill an archaeologist specialising in Teotihuacan who had formerly espoused a mostly internalist perspective on Teotihuacan-Maya relations, summarised the debate, conceding that Teotihuacan had probably exercised some kind of political control in the Maya area in the early classic period and that left an important legacy into the late and epi-classic periods.

Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan

The outside edges of each level are decorated with feathered serpent heads alternating with those of another snake-like creature, often identified as Tlaloc.

Teotihuacan Priests

The Teotihuacan Priests are a semi-professional ice hockey team in Mexico City, Mexico.


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