In the words of the show’s curator Matthew H.
The map allows anyone with an internet connection (and $27 for a Minecraft account) to dive in and run around amid and within the unblemished splendor of the temples. To build some buzz and expose more people to the show’s themes, the museum concurrently released a scale Minecraft map of the city. Objects form recent excavations are leveraged as a starting point to examine how the modern conception of the city is formed by surviving artworks. Who built it, what was their language, why did their great metropolis fail? The de Young Museum in San Francisco recently opened a show about the city titled Teotihuacán: City of Water, City of Fire.
We know that Teotihuacán was the largest city in the Americas and one of the most populous on Earth in its heyday, but nearly everything else is a mystery. The ruined city was built in a hill-enveloped valley 2,000d years ago and collapsed around 550 CE. The word Teotihuacán comes from the Aztecs and translates to birthplace of the gods. Scene from the Minecraft map of Teotihuacán (all images by the author for Hyperallergic)
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