Talk:Pyramid of the Sun

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It appears that the article Pyramid of the Sun redirects to Teotihuacán. Should we change the redirect to point to this article instead? --Hurricane111 17:30, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and did that...but there's major duplication between the articles. This made sense when there wasn't a separate article for Pyramid of the Sun, but now someone familiar with the subject should clean out some of what's at Teotihuacán.


 * Also, I think Sun should be capitalized, but it would take an admin to do that, since the redirect has history, if trivial. If you agree, you might list it as a requested move... NickelShoe 20:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Misinformation
This article contains a great deal of incorrect statements, most notably the assertion the Pyramid and Teotihuacán were built by the Aztec culture. It's fairly normal for archaeological articles on wikipedia to be somewhat inaccurate, but this seems so mistaken that a rewrite is in order.
 * You need credible references to support this claim. And could you please sign off your comments? -- S iva1979 Talk to me  20:26, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

greatest Pyramids
here in the Chapter Structure... I read something from the 3 biggest Pyramids in the World. A few days ago I was looking for Informations about El Mirador and in some places I have read, that the Pyramide of La Danta there is also among the biggest and most massive pyramids (72m high, 620x330m Basic area (?footprint?), Volume: 2,800,000 cubic meter) - please forgive me my bad english, I hope I could give a hint anyway -- Hartmann Schedel  cheers  22:08, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * something more: here it is said, that the Volume is 12,753,386 metres (this should be cubic meter? m³?). However: the Great Pyramide of Gizeh has "only" a Volume of about 2,500,000 m³. My english is not very good and I always have to take care of the fact, that in english there are "Points" used, where in german it is a "Comma" and vice versa, so maybe here is a mistake of mine. But it seems to me, that the Teotihuacan Pyramide has 12.75 Million cubic meter and Gizeh has only 2.5 Million, and this can't be true. One of these two numbers must be wrong -- Hartmann Schedel  cheers  11:28, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * may I remember on this Volumething with 12,753,386.03 (cubic?) meter vs 2,500,000 cubic meter of the Great Pyramide of Gizeh? --  Hartmann Schedel  cheers  19:01, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Yea, the volume for this thing is way off. It should be 1.2 million m³. Which would make it the 7th largest pyramid behind even the luxor casino. The claim of "third largest" is in regards to its footprint. Which is in no way a complete gauge of its size. If noone objects, I'll update the article.--Fashizzl (talk) 00:01, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Neither cubic meters nor square meters (footprint) could proof that it would be the 3rd largest pyramid as the following pic clearly shows! So I also recommand to delete that false statement! Weapon X (de) (talk) 03:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * [[File:Comparison_of_pyramids.svg]]


 * Not without a reliable source. Try googling Google books for "third largest pyramid" - I got tired looking, all of them said the Pyramid of the Sun, and that was without searching for Pyramid of the Sun. Dougweller (talk) 07:30, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Big discovery at the Pyramid of the Sun--Teotihuacan
from Mike Ruggeri's mailing list Listeros,

In a very surprising discovery at Teotihuacan, a sculpture of the Old Fire God, Huehueteotl, was uncovered at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. The Huehueteotl sculpture is the largest of the Old Fire God ever found at Teotihuacan. Two stela made of greenstone were also uncovered. They date from the late 5th of early 6th century CE. The temple in which they were found was apparently destroyed by the Teotihuacanos themselves. The original archaeologist, Leopaldo Baltres, had covered the top of the pyramid without excavating the area. This may indicate that the Pyramid of the Sun could have been the site of fiery nature cults and calendrical cycle endings. The two greenstone stela were constructed in a smooth undecorated style.

INAH has the report here (in Spanish) with a great slide show of the remarkable find. (click on the camera icon to see it). There will be more stories and photos on this discovery, and I will post them as they appear.

http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/14-hallazgos/6383-descubren-monumentos- en-cuspide-de-la-piramide-del-sol

Dougweller (talk) 13:57, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Summary
Is this a structure or building? May need to update summary as needed. SWP13 (talk) 16:36, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Construction dating disputed
See a number of articles on this. Doug Weller  talk 10:26, 29 April 2020 (UTC)