Sometime before 700 of the common era unknown enemies put the torch to the heart of Teotihuacan. The palaces, temples, government offices—everything from the Pyramid of the Moon to the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent—burned.

But the city beyond the Street of the Dead survived and, though it did not flourish, it did survive and its people continued to grow their crops, bear their children, and bury their dead for about two hundred more years .

The Age of Teotihuacan was ended. Other cities grew, flourished, and came to their own ends. Through it all, however, the great city was not forgotten. It was, after all,

The City of the Gods.