Tula de Hidalgo, in Mexico's Hidalgo state about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Mexico City, is an enormous dispersed community covering more than 17 sq km (4,200 acres) and, if we believe the Aztecs, it was the capital of the Toltec empire.
Carved "Atlantean" Columns at Tula. Photo by Steve Cadman
An estimated sixty thousand people lived at Tula during its Early Post Classic heyday, ca. AD 900-1200), and after all, shouldn't we take a little peek?
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