The Great Pyramid of Cholula
How does the largest monument ever built by anyone — four and a half million cubic metres of hand-made mud brick — end up so completely forgotten that the Spanish put a church on top of it thinking it was a hill?
c. 300 BCE - 900 CE, in at least six superimposed building stages spanning roughly 1,200 years · San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, MexicoAdded August 2026