The shooting took place at Teotihuac\u00e1n, a pre-Aztec archaeological complex located about 50km (30 miles) north of Mexico City.<\/p>\n
Once one of the largest cities in the ancient world, Teotihuac\u00e1n flourished between around 100BC and AD650 and is believed to have housed more than 100,000 inhabitants at its peak.<\/p>\n
The city was carefully planned, with a central avenue known as the Avenue of the Dead stretching more than 2km (1.25 miles) and lined with temples, palaces and residential compounds.<\/p>\n
The site\u2019s best-known structures are the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon. The Pyramid of the Sun, one of the largest pyramids in the world, rises to about 65m (213ft) and spans roughly 225m (738ft) at its base. The Pyramid of the Moon, where the gunman was seen, stands at around 43m (141ft) tall.<\/p>\n
Archaeologists believe the pyramids were used for religious and ceremonial purposes, including offerings and possibly human sacrifices dedicated to deities associated with the sun, moon, rain and fertility.<\/p>\n
The site is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As one of Mexico\u2019s most important tourist destinations, the site drew more than 1.8 million international visitors last year, according to government figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shooting took place at Teotihuac\u00e1n, a pre-Aztec archaeological complex located about 50km (30 miles) north of Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,388,116,2415,6829,221,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-12475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-mexico","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-standard","12":"tag-us-content","13":"tag-us-news","14":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}