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  • World's Largest Pyramid Was Mistaken as a Mountain

    11/17/2016 11:37:21 AM PST · by sparklite2 · 64 replies
    newser ^ | Aug 20, 2016 | Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
    (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...