![]() “My first thought was, ‘What exactly am I looking at?’” Gómez told me recently. One morning, Sergio Gómez, an archaeologist with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, arrived at work to find a nearly three-foot-wide sinkhole had opened at the foot of a large pyramid known as the Temple of the Plumed Serpent, in Teotihuacán’s southeast quadrant. The grounds of the city’s central courtyard buckled and broke. ![]() Dig sites sloshed over with water a torrent of mud and debris coursed past rows of souvenir stands at the main entrance. ![]() ![]() In the fall of 2003, a heavy rainstorm swept through the ruins of Teotihuacán, the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. The Temple of the Plumed Serpent is adorned with carved snake heads and slithering bodies.
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