Dr. James Fitzsimmons

you know, for its time, at least in the same, say in the sixth century, it was, it was the, it was the, I think it was the sixth largest city in the world at the time.

Um, nothing compared to it.

Uh, it was, it was enormous, maybe 125,000 people, um, something like that, maybe 150, something like that.

Uh, quite large.

Yeah.

Those little, those little tiny dots are people.

Um, just an amazing, an amazing center.

Uh, that building, um, I think pretty much up until the industrial revolution was the largest building in the Americas, like the tallest building in the Americas.

It's the size of the great pyramid of Giza.

It's not quite as tall, but it's, it's enormous.

You go there, it's like, you know, the death star or something.

It's, it's, it's enormous.

So those are people.

Yeah.

It's just so big.

Um,

And this was built around what time, roughly?

So Teo is... It's early classic, so late pre-classic.

So I think it's starting to be built maybe about...

I don't know, first century BC collapses roughly around 600, something like that.