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MEXICO CITY -- Taking small steps, archaeologist Jesus Sanchez points out hand-carved rocks jutting out from a hill overlooking Mexico City's crowded, working-class neighborhood of Iztapalapa. "Look at this one, and then this one," he says, singling out volcanic rock from angular stone. "Do you see how the stones form a line? That's one of the pyramid's three levels."
What Sanchez is tracing is a newly discovered, 1,500-year-old pyramid built by the Teotihuacan culture, which also constructed the famous pyramids about an hour's drive northeast of the city. The base is the size of Teotihuacan's huge Pyramid of the Moon, about 500 feet wide, and the whole structure is about 60 feet tall.See the full content of this document
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Old Conflicts with New at Pyramid Site
The discovery has archeology circles abuzz. "It's a fantastic find," says archeologist and Teotihuacan expert George Cowgill of Arizona State University in Tempe. "It's no exaggeration -- not hype at all -- to say that this rewrites our ...
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