Teotihuacán
This is the ancient city of Teotihuacán, Mexico. Construction of the city began around 300 BC, with the Pyramid of the Sun (shown in our thumbnail) finished by 150 BC. The Pyramid of the sun sits in front of the Avenue of the Dead, and at the North end of that you can see the Pyramid of the Moon. The enormous cultural influence of the city reached its peak around 150-450 AD, when its population is believed to have been over 150,000. Pretty big for nearly 2,000 years ago!
As usual there’s more great info at Wikipedia, and this site has a good map of the city and lots more information too.
Thanks to Sven, R.Dubber, PikaPikaChick, Eduardo Cardenas Trejo, jupap7, Scott Baptista & Ericson Canavan, Jim Morton, DarrenW, Hermann Withalm, Dennis, William Melody and finally Rednapx.
That first link works now
Thanks Gov
that gray area with the small square in it, and the western side the pyramid looks like it forms an arrow
Thanks, I was looking for this.
I assume this giant spiral to the south west is a modern agricultural construction and not some ancient creation:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Teotihuacan was the most populated city in the world in its better times. Even bigger than London then. The most impressive thing is that apart from having streets for walking they built water channels for small boats and public transport inside the city. THey also had drainage and water supply to houses, separatedly cold and hot water. I don’t know exactly how they heated the water.