Teotihuacan: City of the Gods: Sites of the World's Cultures

As with many of the pre-Spanish civilizations of Central and South America there are more questions than answers surrounding the culture of Teotihuacan. From village communities, at around 200 BC, there developed an urban civilization in the highlands of Mexico. Over the centuries it produced huge, precisely constructed pyramids for cultic purposes. In the 8th century AD Teotihuacan suffered a catastrophic collapse. At it's zenith this now legendary ruined city extended over 20 square kilometers and was thus larger than Imperial Rome. Nobody knows what language it's inhabitants spoke, or what people they belonged to. No writing has been found, nor has the name of any ruler. The film follows the traces of a forgotten society and contrasts them with the surviving Indian traditions of present-day Mexico.