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The Pyramid of the Sun dominates central Teotihuacán from the east side of the Avenue of the Dead, the main north–south artery of the city. It was constructed of about 1,000,000 cubic yards (765,000 cubic metres) of material, including hewed tezontle , a red coarse volcanic rock of the region.
Since the late 1970s, excavations of the offerings in the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, and other archaeological sites, have provided physical evidence of human sacrifice among the Mesoamerican peoples.
Obsidian arrowheads and human figurines have been discovered inside the pyramid and similar objects have been found at the nearby Pyramid of the Moon and Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent in the Ciudadela. These objects may have represented sacrificial victims.
21 lis 2022 · This 1,700-year-old sacrificial monkey has a surprising tale. Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun as seen in the 1930s. Archaeologists have discovered numerous sacrificial offerings—often...
Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.
The two major structures that we see on this end of the Avenue of the Dead are the Pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun. Dr. Harris: [0:51] The Pyramid of the Sun is the second-largest pyramid built by the cultures of Mesoamerica.
21 lis 2017 · We define three stages in the construction sequence of the Sun Pyramid: (1) a Pre-Sun Pyramid phase, (2) the establishment of the main corpus of the monument, and, finally, (3) the adjoining of the adosada platform.
