Ancient Mexican City Threatened by New Building
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Men work at one of the multi-family apartment compounds at La Ventilla, one of the most extensively excavated neighborhoods in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, in San Juan Teotihuacan, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico November 7, 2019. (REUTERS/Gustavo Graf )
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pyramids in central Mexico. The project may harm the remains of
temples and about 24 other ancient buildings.
The illegal project is next to the Teotihuacan
archeological area. Building anything new there is illegal. The owner of the land, however, has ignored orders from Mexico s
It is unclear who is behind the construction of the ecotourism park, which resulted in the destruction of at least three unexplored archaeological mounds
Just beyond the towering pyramids of what was once the largest city of the Americas, an illegal building project threatens irreparable harm to the remains of temples and some two dozen other ancient structures in the path of the bulldozers.