It is the largest pyramid in the world - with its base that is four times greater than the base of Khufu's pyramid - and almost twice as large. Pyramid is recognized as the largest one, with a volume of four million five hundred thousand cubic meters. So it really only makes Chufu's pyramid just a little dwarf. Experts estimate that it took about a thousand years to build this pyramid. It is also the largest monument ever built in the world, among all those ancient civilizations. However, it is still a mystery who actually built the pyramid.

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, or otherwise Tlachihualtepetl (in Aztec meaning "handmade hill") is with the length of the side 450 meters the largest pyramid base in the world. In fact, it is not a classic simple pyramid, but six monumental buildings, stacked on top of each other. It grew over the course of each era - as civilizations gradually improved what had already been built.

With a width of 450 meters and a height of 66 meters, the Great Pyramid of Cholula could be considered the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools. However, even the Great Pyramid of Cholula has an astonishing list of records: it is the largest pyramid in the world with a base four times the size of the Pyramid of Khufu and twice as large. It is also so far the largest monument ever built in the world, across all civilizations.

Surprisingly, it is considered to be the largest pyramid in terms of volume (4 cubic meters), but it is not the tallest pyramid. It measures 500 meters, so it is as high as the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, which is 000 meters high, but the Pyramid of Khufu boasts a height of 65 meters. While experts in the field are not sure when the process of building the pyramid began, archaeologists believe that it happened around 64 BC or at the beginning of the Christian era. It is estimated that it took between 139 and 300 years for the pyramid to be completely built.

Legend has it that the locals heard about the approaching Spanish conquerors, and thus covered the local sacred temple with mud. When Hernán Cortés and his men arrived in Cholula in October 1519 (about 1800 years after the pyramid was built), they massacred three thousand people in a single hour, ten percent of the city's total population, and razed many religious structures to the ground. . However, they never even touched the pyramid because they did not find it.

Pyramid is a real puzzler, and is so old that when Cortés and his men arrived in Mexico, the monument was thousands of years old and completely covered with vegetation. What's strange is that the first excavations at the site revealed a series of terrible discoveries, including deformed skulls of executed children.

The history of the pyramid's beginnings is very little. It is believed that building began around 300 BC, but it remains a question of who started it. Legend has it that the Great Pyramid of Cholula was built by giants. Archaeologists, however, believe that the inhabitants of the town of Choluteca also took part in the construction itself.