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English: Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico

The Pyramid of the Sun is one of ancient Mexico's largest structures. It is nearly 200 feet high and 700 feet wide. The Pyramid was built on top of a cave which was discovered in 1970. The cave is over 100 yards long and ends in the shape of a four-leaf clover, with four chambers. In ancient Mexico caves represented passageways to the underworld, but were also thought of as the womb of the earth.

The pyramid originally consisted of four stepped platforms, a surmounting temple, and the Adosada platform, which was built over what was originally the principal facade of the pyramid. No information about the temple itself is yet available, since, along with the upper-most portion of the pyramid, it has been completely destroyed.

If you're not afraid of a few stairs (around 250), the views from the top are excellent.
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Author Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by archer10 (Dennis) 117M Views at https://flickr.com/photos/22490717@N02/4288862319 (archive). It was reviewed on 2 March 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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