Teotihuacan발음듣기
Teotihuacan
(piano music) [Voiceover] We're standing in the archeological park of the ancient site of Teotihuacan.발음듣기
When the Aztecs are making pilgrimages to this site much later from their capital city of Tenochtitlan, or Mexico City, they were amazed and impressed.발음듣기
[Voiceover] They named this place and they named the streets and they named the buildings, but we don't know the original names.발음듣기
Even though we do know a lot about the city and the population of Teotihuacan, some of the basic foundational knowledge is lost to us. Temporarily, hopefully. 발음듣기
[Voiceover] From what we've found, from the art, from the archeology, from the buildings, we can say that they were masters of city planning.발음듣기
But, we don't see ruler portraits, like we might see in Olmec culture that's a little bit earlier.발음듣기
[Voiceover] What we find here at Teotihuacan are these clear centralized government, whether a single ruler, or a body of rulers, it's unclear to us.발음듣기
But, whoever was in control had enough power to organize labor, to plan on this massive scale, and everything is so standardized.발음듣기
We're talking about a highly-organized, hierarchical culture that could pull off monumental architecture over a period of hundreds of years.발음듣기
It's frustrating to us today, because we want to read into these beautifully complex murals that you find all over the city.발음듣기
We want to see rulers. We want to see narratives that talk about the ideologies that are being conveyed to the population, through a ruler or rulers.발음듣기
But, what we see in these murals instead are the main deities, some kind of storm god, some type of great goddess.발음듣기
[Voiceover] We see a relationship between the monumental architecture and the landscape around it.발음듣기
Because, as we look toward the Pyramid of the Moon, the shape of it is echoed by the mountain behind it.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Teotihuacanos, as we call them, since we don't know what they called themselves, were clearly planning some of their structures in accordance with the natural environment to almost create sacred landscape within the city itself.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The Street of the Dead ran four miles, so it's quite long and it really must have felt like a real procession way toward this sacred building.발음듣기
[Voiceover] If we were on the Street of the Dead, and it's about a 135 feet wide, so you get this sense that you are processing down this grand boulevard.발음듣기
When we look at the Pyramid of the Moon, it would have originally been even taller with probably wood structures on top.발음듣기
[Voiceover] We also have to imagine that all of these buildings would have been stuccoed and then brightly painted.발음듣기
Off the Street of the Dead there are approximately 2000 apartment complexes on this grid plan.발음듣기
[Voiceover] We have to imagine something that looks entirely different than the ruins that we see today.발음듣기
[Voiceover] We also have to imagine all the activities here, whether they're ritual or merchants.발음듣기
Archeologists are finding amazing things on a regular basis, including a recent discovery of a tunnel under the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent.발음듣기
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