The Largest Pyramid In The World Isn’t In Egypt, And It’s Hidden Under A Church
It also grew to its size in stages, over time
“…Hiding under tufts of grass, trees, and soil, is an ancient pyramid of truly gigantic proportions. Standing 450 metres wide and 66 metres tall, from end to end the Great Pyramid of Cholula is equivalent to nine Olympic sized swimming pools.”
— Zaria Gorvett, BBC
The building my company uses as a warehouse has an interesting history. It was originally a hayloft. Imagine that. Dead in the middle of the hood in Philadelphia sat a barn-like structure, complete with a beam on the top of the building used to lift hay bales via a rope.
After that, it was a boxing gym. An old neighbor would tell me about walking upstairs through the narrow hallway to watch neighborhood athletes spar in a ring as a kid. Now, it’s a storage place for cleaning equipment.
What does this have to do with a pyramid? More than you’d think.
Cultures build on top of the past; many times modifying it to fit their purposes. Israel takes this to extremes. Construction in this land regularly involves finding something ancient.
Josie Glausiusz in the Journal Nature, explains a road construction project in 2019 found a…
