How Teotihuacan`s urban design was lost and found
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

Name one civilization located in the Americas that pre-dates the arrival of Europeans. You probably replied with the Aztecs, the Inca or perhaps the Maya. A new paper, published in De Gruyter`s open access journal Open Archeology, by Michael E. Smith of Arizona State University shows how this view of American civilizations is narrow. It is entitled `The Teotihuacan Anomaly: The Historical Trajectory of Urban Design in Ancient Central Mexico`.