A Visit to Teotihuacan

There is something deeply moving about seeing the pyramids at Teotihuacan, about forty-five minutes north of the center of Mexico City. They are sobering reminders of the deep and incredibly rich culture of this country—they've towered above this basin for at least a millennium and a half—and yet there is still so much more to discover under the ground even in their immediate vicinity. Our guide here, one of the site's archaeologists, pointed to a bumpy field of cacti just beyond the monumental boulevard pictured here and said that each of the hillocks we saw probably hid yet another temple platform underneath.