Teotihuacan: The First Metropolis in the Americas | SLICE HISTORY | Full Documentary

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Nearly 2,000 years ago, Teotihuacan became the largest city in pre-Columbian America. Built around the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, it attracted around 120,000 inhabitants from across Mesoamerica, including Maya and Zapotec communities.

Archaeologists reveal how religion, immigration, trade and planned housing transformed Teotihuacan into the continent’s first cosmopolitan metropolis. Its foreign neighbourhoods, vast apartment compounds and thriving obsidian industry created an urban model far ahead of its time. Yet one mystery remains unresolved: who founded this immense city, and who ruled it?