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World's Largest Pyramid Was Mistaken as a Mountain
newser ^ | Aug 20, 2016 | Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

Posted on 11/17/2016 11:37:21 AM PST by sparklite2

(Newser) – When Hernan Cortez and his Spanish army marched into Cholula in present-day Mexico nearly 500 years ago, they were greeted by a peaceful people prone to building pyramids instead of stockpiles of weapons. Those people and their pyramids fell, and fast, with 10% of the local population murdered in a day as their pyramids were torched into oblivion.

But as legend has it, one mud-brick pyramid was hidden, perhaps accidentally by vegetation, and was for centuries mistaken for a mountain, until locals began to construct an insane asylum in 1910. That's when they discovered the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world.

Tlachihualtepetl, or the Great Pyramid of Cholula, stands more than 200 feet tall and nearly 1,500 feet wide, dwarfing the Great Pyramid of Giza in volume, reports the BBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cholula; godsgravesglyphs; greatpyramid; tlachihualtepetl
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1 posted on 11/17/2016 11:37:21 AM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

Malware, don’t click


2 posted on 11/17/2016 11:39:26 AM PST by javie
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To: sparklite2

Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!


3 posted on 11/17/2016 11:39:36 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: sparklite2

“they were greeted by a peaceful people prone to building pyramids instead of stockpiles of weapons”

Go look up “Aztec” and then get back to me.


4 posted on 11/17/2016 11:40:07 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: miss marmelstein
Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!

They had a lot of hearts.

6 posted on 11/17/2016 11:41:10 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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The Spaniards settled in Cholula and kept up with the local affinity for religious monuments...

Oh please. Slapping churches on top of native religious sites, like this pyramid, was an old cultural domination tactic before the Spaniards left Europe.

7 posted on 11/17/2016 11:42:25 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

God’ll get for that!


8 posted on 11/17/2016 11:42:34 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: sparklite2

The Spanish arriving in Aztec areas was analogous to the Allied armies liberating death camps in Nazi Germany. Thank God that barbaric culture was eradicated


9 posted on 11/17/2016 11:42:56 AM PST by DesertRhino (November 8, America's Brexit!!!)
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Absolutely. They had a lot of help from the local subjugated peoples, too.


10 posted on 11/17/2016 11:45:33 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (I support a woman's right to lose.)
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To: sparklite2
How come it says Fox News and you click and go somewhere else? Run your antivirus quick.
11 posted on 11/17/2016 11:46:06 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: DesertRhino

They may well have murdered more people in cold blood than Hitler could have imagined.


12 posted on 11/17/2016 11:47:13 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Talisker

“Slapping churches on top of native religious sites, like this pyramid, was an old cultural domination tactic before the Spaniards left Europe.”

That was an old tactic before Jesus died for our sins.


13 posted on 11/17/2016 11:47:27 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: javie

Here’s one that seems to be okay

http://www.newser.com/story/229631/worlds-largest-pyramid-hidden-in-a-mountain-in-mexico.html


14 posted on 11/17/2016 11:47:58 AM PST by Salamander (Joan Crawford Has Risen From The Grave...)
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To: javie
> Malware, don’t click

Just looks like an unrecognized server certificate, most likely just a rookie sysadmin config error. I don't see any indication of actual malware-type badness.

15 posted on 11/17/2016 11:48:37 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Fiddlstix
Pissaro and his diseased men and pigs caused an epidemic that may have killed 2 million people.
16 posted on 11/17/2016 11:49:13 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Twenty years ago we went through that pyramid which remains under dirt. Apparently, the indians covered it to look like a big hill to protect it from the Spanish. It stands out because it is on a plain. There is an old Spanish church on top of it. The church isn’t used anymore, but you enter the tunnels of the pyramid through it. The tunnels wind through the 6 levels of pyramid (apparently six pyramids were built one on top of the other as they grew it. There are many colorful jaquar motifs and so forth on the walls. You come out the bottom in some other archeological stuff. Pretty cool.


17 posted on 11/17/2016 11:49:41 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!

Yeah, never mind the human sacrifices and mountains of skulls.

18 posted on 11/17/2016 11:50:42 AM PST by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: mountainlion

My post was in reference to the Aztecs. read it again.


19 posted on 11/17/2016 11:50:59 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Salamander
They all appear to derive from a more in-depth BBC article:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160812-the-giant-pyramid-hidden-inside-a-mountain?ocid=ww.social.link.reddit

20 posted on 11/17/2016 11:53:16 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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