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FIG. 14 (left):
Smaller pyramids in the foreground
of Sun Pyramid.
Teotihuacan, Anahuac, Mexico.
Photo: Eye Ubiquitous/UIG via Getty Images.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco.
FIG. 15 (below):
Sun Pyramid.
Teotihuacan, Anahuac, Mexico.
Photo: Hermes Images/AGF/UIG via Getty
Images.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco.
FIG. 16 (lower left):
View of an area immediately east
of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid,
looking south. The fragments
seen here tumbled down from the
eastern façade of the building;
some may have been deliberately
thrown down in an attempt to
desacralize the pyramid.
Photo: Jorge Pérez de Lara Elías, © INAH.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco.
FIG. 13 (right):
View of the Sun Pyramid looking east.
At 63 meters tall, the Sun Pyramid was
one of the largest and tallest structures
in the Western Hemisphere until the
development of the skyscraper in the
nineteenth century.
Photo: Jorge Pérez de Lara Elías, © INAH.
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco.