Professor David Carballo The Daily Beast interview
Mexico Is Hiding The World’s Largest Pyramid
In the city of Cholula in central Mexico there stands a hill with a giant church on top which hides a man made pyramid filled with secrets.
Excerpt from interview with William O’Connor, 12/4/16 Click here to read entire interview.
During the peak period of the pyramid’s construction (the first six centuries AD), the city’s population swelled to approximately 25,000, Plunket and Uruñuela believe. And given its status as a refugee destination, it became a sort of cultural melting pot, explains David Carballo, an archaeologist at Boston University. “We of course don’t know exactly what the ethnicity was of the builders of the Great Pyramid,” he says, “but it was probably a multiethnic city and it drew from previous groups that were in the area.” A large part of the evidence for this, all three tell me, is the architecture found in Cholula. The structures around the pyramid and the pyramid itself reflect more influences from Oaxaca than from neighboring Teotihuacan.