Is the Mayan City of Mirador May Be Home to Worlds Largest Pyramid?”
(Nov. 2) — From a distance, it looks like a mountain overrun by dense growth in the Guatemalan jungle. But researchers who have been exploring the remains of an ancient Mayan city say the massive mound may be the world’s largest pyramid. In a video posted on CNN’s Web site Sunday, correspondent Brooke Baldwin reported on how scientists working at the site of the Mayan city of El Mirador are trying to preserve the pyramid, called La Danta. You can watch her report below. “The pyramid is a structure the world should know, because it represents an investment of labor unprecedented in the world’s history. Every single stone in that building, from the bottom to the top, was carried by human labor,” said archaeologist Richard Hansen, director of the Mirador Basin Project. (According to National Geographic, the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, is currently the world’s largest. It consists of 2.3 million stone blocks that weigh 2.5 tons to 15 tons apiece.) El Mirador covered an area larger than
From a distance, it looks like a mountain overrun by dense growth in the Guatemalan jungle. But researchers who have been exploring the remains of an ancient Mayan city say the massive mound may be the world’s largest pyramid. In a video posted on CNN’s Web site Sunday, correspondent Brooke Baldwin reported on how scientists working at the site of the Mayan city of El Mirador are trying to preserve the pyramid, called La Danta. “The pyramid is a structure the world should know, because it represents an investment of labor unprecedented in the world’s history. Every single stone in that building, from the bottom to the top, was carried by human labor,” said archaeologist Richard Hansen, director of the Mirador Basin Project. (According to National Geographic, the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, is currently the world’s largest. It consists of 2.3 million stone blocks that weigh 2.5 tons to 15 tons apiece.) El Mirador covered an area larger than downtown Los Angeles, and Hansen believes it
