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According to some Aztec (Mexica; pronounced may-SHEE-kah) legends, the city of Teotihuacán (pronounced TAY-uh-tee-wah-KAHN) was built by giants. Who else could have achieved the immense size and scale of building that occurred there more than two thousand years ago? The founders of Teotihuacán remain unknown in the twenty-first century, and observers still look upon the ruins with the...