The Biggest Human-Made Pyramid On Earth Isn't In Egypt
The Great Pyramid of Cholula is 2,000 years old.
RACHAEL FUNNELL
Social Editor and Staff Writer
Sep 16, 2022 9:34 AM
cholula pyramid
Image credit: diego_cue,CC BY-SA 3.0
In Mexico sits the Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as the Great Pyramid of Tepanapa, a 2,000-year-old human-made structure that went completely unnoticed by the Spanish army when they invaded in 1519. An impressive oversight when you consider that it’s the biggest pyramid on Earth. How did they miss it? Quite simply, it’s hidden inside a hill.
The Cholula Massacre was one of the most infamous endeavors of conquistador Hernán Cortés who stormed the city of Cholula on October 12, 1519. Cortés’s army arrived anticipating a fight but were met with a sacred city believed to be home to a holy pyramid for every day of the year; structures built to place divine protection over the city.
Instead, as the lives of 3,000 people were taken (amounting to 10 percent of the city’s population) the many pyramids became the subjects of looting. Having claimed the many religious artifacts, the Spanish settled in Cholula and began erecting their own churches.
One of those, the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remediosa, was to become – effectively – a hat, after it was unknowingly placed on top of the Great Pyramid of Cholula. At 66 meters (216 feet) tall and 450 meters (1,475 feet) wide, it’s the largest pyramidin the world, with a volume that’s nearly twice that of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
cholula pyramid
When the Spanish invasion happened, nobody knew the world's biggest pyramid was sitting beneath a hill. Image credit: Janice Waltzer, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
More:
https://www.iflscience.com/the-biggest-human-made-pyramid-on-earth-isn-t-in-egypt-65328
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The Largest Pyramid in the World
Hidden beneath a hill in Cholula, Mexico lies the largest pyramid ever built.
Dean Nicholas | Published in History Today Volume 66 Issue 8 August 2016
The world’s largest pyramid can be found not in Egypt, but hidden beneath a hill in a small town in the central Mexican state of Puebla. Known variously as the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Pirámide Tepanapa, or, in the indigenous Nahuatl language, Tlachihualtepetl, or ‘artificial mountain’, the structure measures 400 by 400 metres and has a total volume of 4.45 million cubic metres, almost twice that of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was first constructed around 200 BC and expanded or rebuilt several times over the following centuries by different civilisations, including the Olmecs and the Toltecs. According to Aztec mythology, it was built by Xelhua, a giant whose edifice so upset the gods that they hurled fire down upon it.
Excavated part of the pyramid
At its height over 100,000 people lived around the pyramid, although by the time the Spanish arrived in 1520 it had become covered by dirt and was hidden from view, with newer temples constructed on its outskirts. Hernán Cortés and his men slaughtered many of the Cholulans, probably to scare the inhabitants of the nearby Aztec capital Tenochtitlan into submission, but, to judge by the church they built on top (still standing today), the Spanish were clearly unaware of the hill’s true nature. The pyramid was re-discovered in the late 19th century and since then archaeologists have begun to excavate the network of tunnels that run through its base.
https://www.historytoday.com/grand-tour/largest-pyramid-world
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I would personally bet that the age/timing of some of these structures is much older, but that's just me 
I wish I had the funds and energy/body to go explore these sites!
They've been unable or unwilling to acknowledge the responsibility the invading Europeans had in destroying so much of the humanity already living in the "New World" as well as as much evidence of their culture as possible, to make it appear this really was not a vast crime against humanity when they slaughtered almost all the population from the north to the southern tip of South America, and destroyed their books, homes, crops, etc. etc., etc., pretending they were all nearly idiots, pathetic "savages" no one had to pity when they got massacred, and their families slaughtered, then treated like trash right up to this very minute. They definitely got the full treatment. The invaders had to dehumanize them in order to avoid admitting guilt for abusing them so profoundly and stealing their lives, and their world.
Once they give up their snotty racism, they might be more capable of seriously taking on the challenge of learning how advanced the ancestors of the survivors in today's Americas really were!
Interesting video on YouTube, 10 minutes:
(It was amusing hearing the narrator in the YouTube mentioning the stupid church built on top of the pyramid looks like a hat!)
