Beneath the tiny church, hiding under tufts of grass ... Standing 450 metres wide and 66 metres tall, from end to end the Great Pyramid of Cholula is equivalent to nine Olympic sized swimming ...

It's easy, especially after a year in which all eyes were on the Maya world, to get caught up in the history and artistry of its ancient cities, and the colossal heights attained by some of their ...

The burnt-orange church with its glistening yellow and ... Unlike the pyramids in nearby Teotihuacan, the Great Pyramid of Cholula is not a neat Russian nesting doll of a pyramid.

The first certainty in the Cholula pyramid’s saga comes with the Olmeca-Xicalanca ... Perhaps in a few centuries, a new layer will overtake the church, preserving another moment in the great pyramid’s ...

Go to Puebla, Mexico and look for a giant hill with a church ... Pyramid of the Sun. It’s about 9 Olympic swimming pools long and 1.3 pools tall and has almost twice the volume of the Great ...

That curiously symmetrical hill beneath the church? That’s not a hill at all. It’s the Great Pyramid of Cholula, the largest known pyramid on Earth, begun before Christ, completed long before ...

dwarfing the Great Pyramid of Giza in volume, reports the BBC. The Spaniards settled in Cholula and kept up with the local affinity for religious monuments, erecting enough churches so that there ...

Beneath the tiny church, hiding under tufts of grass ... Standing 450 metres wide and 66 metres tall, from end to end the Great Pyramid of Cholula is equivalent to nine Olympic sized swimming ...