Researchers confirm: The Largest Pyramid in Mexico has been found

[L. Coyote]

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.

[arcane1]

1. Cool!!!

[Tikki]

2. Sky scraper......

Tkki

[pansypoo53219]

3. what could be under sand? i had an old book from 1900ish + the sphinx was mostly buried in sand.

[Judi Lynn]

4. What a breakthrough, this discovery. We need to know everything they can tell us.

Had to seem more from google images:

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More:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS566US566&q=The+Pyramid+Tonina,+Chiapas&tbm=isch&gws_rd=ssl#gws_rd=ssl&imgrc=_

We are lucky this discovery was made during our lifetimes. How wonderful. Beautiful.

Thank you.

On edit:

Had to take a look for "El Mirador," in Guatemala, which you mentioned. Astonishing!

Here's the google image site for those of us who need to see more of Mirador:

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS566US566&q=El+Mirador+Guatemala&tbm=isch&gws_rd=ssl

Overwhelming. So much to learn.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. I always wanted to trek to El Mirador.

Wife would never go for that though.

"You have a child now. What if you get killed."

Hrmph!

[Helen Borg]

7. Life insurance? :)

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Already got a pretty chunky policy.

At least this means she really doesn't want me to get killed!

[L. Coyote]

9. New KML

http://jqjacobs.net/kml/tonina.kml

[a la izquierda]

6. I went to Calakmul last year.

Edificios I and II are massive. But this one seems positively mountainous!