Tagged “teotihuacan”
HIGH WONDERThe Great Pyramid of Cholula
How does the largest monument ever built by anyone — four and a half million cubic metres of hand-made mud brick — end up so completely forgotten that the Spanish put a church on top of it thinking it was a hill?
c. 300 BCE - 900 CE, in at least six superimposed building stages spanning roughly 1,200 years · San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, MexicoAdded August 2026
Pyramid of the Sun
Who exactly were the Teotihuacanos who raised the third-largest pyramid on Earth over a sacred cave, and what did that cave, and the massive planned city built around it, actually mean to the people who never left a name we can read?
c. 100-250 CE · Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, MexicoAdded July 2026