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Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire

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Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an in a different way dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was once on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of most likely one hundred thousand, at its peak in 400 CE, it was once the cultural, political, economic, and non secular center of ancient Mesoamerica. A devastating fire in the city center led to a rapid decline after the middle of the sixth century, but Teotihuacan was once never completely abandoned or forgotten; the Aztecs revered the city and its monuments, giving many of them the names we still use lately.
 
Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire examines new discoveries from the three main pyramids at the web site—the Sun Pyramid, the Moon Pyramid, and, at the center of the Ciudadela complex, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid—which have fundamentally changed our understanding of the city’s history. With illustrations of the major objects from Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Antropología and from the museums and storage facilities of the Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos de Teotihuacan, along side selected works from US and European collections, the catalogue examines these cultural artifacts to remember the roles that offerings of objects and programs of monumental sculpture and work of art right through the city played in the lives of Teotihuacan’s citizens. 
 
Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
 
Exhibition dates:
de Young, San Francisco, September 30, 2017–February 11, 2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March–June 2018

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