Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
A jewel of Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan was a vibrant, painted city - but who built it? And who actually lived there?
In the second episode of our August series 'The Ancient Americas', Tristan is joined by professor Annabeth Headrick to help shine a light on one of ancient history's most marvellous mysteries. Taking us on a journey through the city, examining the monumental structures, the mythology it was built on, and a quick detour to the Temple of the Feathered Serpent - there is no doubt Teotihuacan is a treasure trove of information.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast where we're continuing our Ancient |
| 0:18.1 | America's series this August and today we've got a hell of a good one because we're still |
| 0:24.4 | in Mesoamerica but we're talking about one of Mesoamerica's greatest biggest ancient |
| 0:31.2 | settlements. |
| 0:32.5 | The site of Teer Tehuakan, or Teer Tehuakan, you'll notice in this podcast I struggle |
| 0:38.6 | sometimes a bit with the pronunciation of the word but don't let that take anything |
| 0:43.2 | away from this ancient city. |
| 0:46.3 | Contemporary with Republican Rome, with Imperial Rome, it was a massive monumental city |
| 0:53.6 | in Mesoamerica filled with temples, pyramids, great courtyards, rich in art, in paint, |
| 1:02.3 | in decoration and also the amount of archaeology that has survived and is still being uncovered |
| 1:07.7 | is revealing so much more about this culture, this Mesoamerican culture that lived at Teer Tehuakan. |
| 1:16.0 | And to explain all about this, 40 minutes and overview of this city of this ancient |
| 1:21.2 | settlement, I was delighted for us to get on the podcast Professor Annabeth Hedrick from |
| 1:27.0 | the University of Denver. |
| 1:29.1 | Now Teer Tehuakan, it's such a big topic we can't cover everything in 40 minutes but this |
| 1:35.0 | is a great overview at a few different aspects of it. |
| 1:38.5 | We look at the layout of the settlement, we look at a few monumental buildings such as |
| 1:44.0 | the pyramids of the Sun, of the Moon and the Temple of the Thedded Surpent and we also |
| 1:49.0 | look at what the arts or the archaeology is revealing about the military, how the military |
| 1:55.6 | worked in this ancient society. |
| 1:58.0 | Annabeth explains all she was so enthusiastic and absolutely great speaker and I know you're |
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