"Everyone in Tenochtitlan knew that, ten miles from the shores of the lake to the north-east, there had once been another city, Teotihuacan, whose mysterious pyramids, now covered in brushwood, were a byword for their size. Nobody knew (nor knows) what people had flourished there, nor what language they had spoken... Its eclipse had affected those who came after it as if it had been the fall of Rome."
- Hugh Thomas
