Title: Secrets of the crypt in an ancient city , By: Petit, Charles W., U.S. News & World Report, 00415537, 11/11/2002, Vol. 133, Issue 18
Secrets of the crypt in an ancient city
When gold-crazed Cortes conquered Mexico in 1521, its first great city
was already a ruin--and a mystery. The defeated Aztecs left us their
name for this city of huge pyramids and grand boulevards 25 miles from
Mexico City: Teotihuacan, "City of the Gods." But they knew
neither who its builders were nor why its people--as many as 100,000
at its height around A.D. 350--abandoned it.
Now a rare, unlooted tomb suggests the Teotihuacanos were in close contact and perhaps even allied with the better-known Maya to the south. Archaeologists suspected that the two cultures traded and even fought. But the hints of a more intimate tie make the burial "the most important discovery about Teotihuacan in 20 years," says George Cowgill, an authority at Arizona State University.
Saburo Sugiyama, a Japanese archaeologist working part time at Arizona State, found three skeletons of apparently high-ranking people deep within the 150-foot-high Pyramid of the Moon. The bodies were seated upright, a burial pose known among the Maya but never seen before at Teotihuacan. The tomb also includes a striking statuette, distinctly Maya in style, made of a jade from Maya territory.
As for the city's demise, a long dry spell might
be to blame. University of Arkansas tree-ring expert David Stahle said
at Washington University in St. Louis last week that a new analysis
of ancient trees across North America, including Mexico, points to a
drought from about A.D. 736 to 765, among the worst of the past 2,000
years and enough to shrivel an empire.
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