Pyramid Discovered Under a Hill in Mexico
A new 22 meter high pyramid has been unearthed under a hill in Mexico.
The earth pyramid, believed to have been built by the pre-Columbian Teotihuacán culture in around AD500, measures 150 metres on each side and sits underneath another historical site, on which Mexicans have re-enacted the crucifixion of Christ for nearly 200 years…
…The two pyramids at Teotihuacán are the country’s most popular tourist attraction. One of them, the pyramid of the sun, is thought to be the largest such structure in the world, after the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren in Egypt…
…It is not the only example in Mexico of a Christian religious site being built upon the ruins of a former culture: the Spanish conquistadors are thought to have deliberately placed churches on Aztec religious sites in order to displace the pre-Columbian religion.
Mexico City’s cathedral is built on the site of an Aztec temple, and Mexico’s patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, is believed to have first appeared shortly after the Spanish conquest on a hillside where the Aztecs worshipped their mother goddess.
The pyramid in Cholula, which according to some estimates is even larger than the Giza pyramids in Egypt, also has a church on top of it.
Read the full story at the Guardian website.
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