Teotihuacan Ruins (Scrapbook 2)

This picture is of some Teotihuacan ruins; again, this picture was taken by my brother during his visit in Mexico. Just like the hummingbird picture, this picture was not art because its sole purpose was to preserve memory. Ancient civilizations have always intrigued me and being able to see real photographs was thrilling. Even though this picture is not art, it could still represent how even the great civilizations can fall, or that man creates his own ruining. The Teotihuacan contains some of the largest and most extravagant pyramidal constructs in the pre-Columbian Americas. The foundation and the destruction of this civilization are very questionable. However, most scholars believe that the volcano, Xitle, forced a mass emigration out of Mexico’s central valley and into the Teotihuacan valley. In the other spectrum, scholars also assume that there was an uprising because the destruction in the city was focused in the major civic structures along the Avenue of the Dead and the statues were destroyed in a fashion so that there fragments were evenly dispersed.

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