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Tikal and Teotihuacan: Friends Turned Enemies?
Closer examination, and corroboration with Teotihuacan’s remains, uncovered an eerie resemblance of this newly discovered Tikal architecture to an enormous square known as the Citadel. In fact, it was a half-sized literal replica. In an article about this recent discovery,
National Geographic explains that the famous Citadel is where the even more iconic six-level Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan lies.
According to the
Daily Mail , it was probably used as an embassy or outpost of some kind by the Teotihuacans. Its location on the outskirts of Tikal suggests some kind of a collaborative effort. One of the first members from the team to make this connection, archaeologist Stephen Houston from Brown University, explained that “the similarity of the details was stunning.”
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