World's Largest Pyramid Still Lays Hidden in Mexico Fox News Latino
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Inside One of the Greatest Pyramids of the World (1st Look)

Sitting just a few miles outside the city of Puebla in central Mexico is the largest monument ever constructed on earth, but one would be hard-pressed to find it.

Covered in a rash of grass, trees and soil, and laying in the shadow of the Popocatepétl volcano is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, which at 1,500 feet wide and more than 200 feet tall is four times larger than the Great Pyramid at Giza and nearly twice the volume.

But for over a millennia the pyramid – known locally as Tlachihualtepetl - or "man-made mountain” - lay hidden in plain sight as a thick layer of jungle foliage had already engulfed the structure by the time Hernán Cortés and his Spanish Conquistadores began their conquest of Mexico in the 16th century.

When Cortés arrived at the city of Cholula, the Spanish leader met little resistance from an indigenous people who invested more time in building temples to their gods than weapons to fend off enemies and during a three hour period on October 19, 1519 the Spanish slaughtered around 3,000 people, ransacked the city of its treasures and set ablaze the pyramids.

All except the Great Pyramid of Cholula, which the Spanish took to be a massive hill and where they chose to erect the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remediosa. That church also holds the title of the oldest continuously occupied building on the continent.

It wasn’t until 1910 when locals began to construct an insane asylum and realized that they were working on ground that wasn’t just a grassy hill.

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