Who built the pyramids of Teotihuacan?
Deep in the Valley of Mexico, long before the Aztecs built their empire, someone raised a city so grand that its pyramids touched the clouds. But here's the mystery: when the Aztecs arrived centuries later and found these enormous stone mountains abandoned, even they didn't know who built them. They named the place Teotihuacan — "the place where the gods were born" — because they couldn't imagine humans doing this work alone.
The truth is that we still don't know exactly which people built Teotihuacan. No ancient texts survived with their name. No king left his signature carved in stone like the Egyptian pharaohs did. The builders were a mystery civilization — incredibly organized, numbering maybe 100,000 people at the city's peak around 400 CE, but they left no written records we can read.
