ocr: fallen hundreds of years before the conquistadores entered Mexico. Atthe height of its power, around A.D.500, Teotihuacan was larger than imperial Rome. For more than half a millennium it was to Middle America what Rome, Benares or Mecca has been to the Old World: at once a religious and cultural capital and a major economic and political center. Unlike many of the Maya settlements to the south, in both Mexico and Guatemala, Teotihuacan was never a "lost" city. The Aztecs were still worshiping at its sacred monuments at the time of the Spanish Conquest, and scholarly studies of its ruins 20f42 ...
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