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Article: Places time forgot: little-known archeological sites can be found throughout Mexican bush.
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- Business Mexico
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Although Teotihuacan and Tulum share the limelight as the two most visited archaeological sites in the country, Mexico is home to thousands of ruins that don't even appear on maps. Many of these lesser-known sites have intriguing histories and, in the case of one of them, changed the course of Mexican history forever.
Tucked away in a rural area 25 miles northwest of the city of Veracruz lies a small ruin filled with remnants of the Totonaca nation's powerful capital city often called Zempoala. The city had a population of around 30,000 when Hernan Cortes found it on the dawn of his conquest of Mexico.
When he first laid eyes on the city, the night's ...