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L. Coyote

(51,134 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 05:01 PM Jul 2015

Researchers confirm: The Largest Pyramid in Mexico has been found [View all]

http://zonnews.com/news/450-researchers-confirm-the-largest-pyramid-in-mexico-has-been-found.html

Researchers in Mexico have discovered a Pyramid that, according to initial measurements, is larger than the Great Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan. Initial excavations were done in 2010.

The Pyramid, 75 meters in height, was explored by specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) on the acropolis of Tonina, Chiapas, estimated to be around 1700 years old.

Emiliano Gallaga, director of the archaeological zone, explained that work has been done in the last two years, and by means of a “three-dimensional, researchers verified that in the northeastern part of the site, stands one of the largest construction in Mesoamerica, comparable in size only to great Mayan cities like Tikal and El Mirador in Guatemala.

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In Guatemala, Pyramid IV at Tikal is higher. El Mirador may be taller yet.

From the Pyramid of the Sun, at Teotihuacan in Central Mexico, the arc distances to Tikal IV and Tonina express the proportion seven to nine precisely.
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