Cuicuilco: A Round Pyramind destroyed by a Volcano

Located in the middle of Mexico City and formerly situated on the edge of Lake Texcoco, Cuicuilco is one of the oldest settlements in the region of Central Mexico. It was home to a civilization that worshipped volcanoes, and when it was ultimately destroyed by a volcano, the survivors fled to the city of their rivals on the other side of the lake, Teotihuacan. Although it is poorly studied, in part because most of thebsite is buried under ten meters of lava rock, it is one of the most unique and fascinating ancient sites of mesoamerica, and easy to visit if you are in México City.
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[@fadyarzolamerchak3476]

Gracias por compartir el programa cultural saludos desde la ciudad de México ❤️😘🏰🏰🏰🏰🙏

[@burneye]

awesome work Brother

[@Chemtrailsurfer]

thank you Pyramid Review

[@tetelestaicreations5740]

Love your videos

[@pyramidreview8664]

Thank you! 😁

[@badlandsexplorer3712]

I missed seeing this site the last time I was in Mexico City. Thank you for sharing Cuicuilco.

[@RogueReplicant]

I'm glad he did a video on it, it's an awesome site! 😭

[@Smoug]

give me a call i can give you a tour!

[@MB-bt9km]

Heck yeah time for another pyramid review!

[@pyramidreview8664]

that's right

[@Billthebaker420]

The amount of earth moved by these peoples is mind blowing. Not just the builds but those roadways, the courtyards. I am really enjoying these videos, so glad you brought me along! 😁👍🏼

[@pyramidreview8664]

And all without carts or pack animals too

[@BobDeGuerre]

Although the likelihood of an extensive archeological excavation is next to nil, it is still fascinating to speculate upon what is buried beneath all that lava, and what sorts of insights could be gleaned from it. And the blue flower is very likely a variety of Morning Glory.

[@pyramidreview8664]

The lava is 10 meters thick so it's amazing they managed to dig up all this already

[@bartelgrant]

I think this video or rather this pyramid illustrates very nicely what factors led to why specifically pyramids were built. 1) An anthropological explanation: People see a volcano, are impressed by it, it becomes the center of their religion, they create a monument in the shape of a volcano. 2) An architectural explanation: Earthquakes force people to abandon building delicate towers and tall monuments. Instead, when people want to build tall, they will have to build wide also. Prolonged use of these structures, and gradual decay of them, forces people to build more and more protective layers around it (perhaps inspiring next generations to build their pyramids in a step-wise shape to begin with?). Round shapes may be harder to maintain in the face of frequent earthquakes, and a more rectangular shape may be easier to incorporate into urban design with roads and plazas. The anthropological explanation will vary with culture and location, but the argument about the general statics and architecture should hold true across many different regions. Aliens or Atlantis are not necessary in this explanation.

[@RodrigoMera]

I used to study Etnohistory at the ENAH (National School of Anthropology and History) just next to Cuicuilco, so good memories. Sadly, I never finished.

[@pyramidreview8664]

It is better to learn a bit of something than to learn nothing at all

[@nathaliocaplan1493]

Awesome video. Thanks. In Jalisco there is an archaeological site called Guachimontones where there are about a dozen round “pyramids” including one that has a deep hole on the top thought to have been used for the “voladores” ceremony

[@pyramidreview8664]

It’s definitely on my to-do list, it seems like a very unique site!

[@BSIII]

Will you be going to Comalcalco? One of my favorite sites in Mexico. It's made of fired brick, and is very unique to Mesoamerica, and the Americas in general. Love these more unknown sites getting exposure. There's sites in Mexico that have Pyramids smack dab right in the middle of uban neighborhoods, with virtually no tourism or restoration. People don't realize how many sites there actually are in Mesoamerica.

[@pyramidreview8664]

Maybe one day, it seems like a very interesting plaxe

[@FacesintheStoneShorts]

Fantastic as always! Are you a fan of Edwin Barnhart? He’s an archaeologist who works in S.America. All the best! ~FitS

[@pyramidreview8664]

I never heard of him before but it seems like we would have some things to discuss!

[@TheDistur]

"There was only fire, and then nothing."

[@DastardlyTongs]

What score would you give this pyramid out of 5 stars?

[@pyramidreview8664]

5!

[@martinromero6099]

Back in the 80's a group of investigators found some columns that had Phoenician writing before anything else could be done the military came in and sealed off the entrances to the spaces underground. nice work.

[@loveandbarley]

"worshipping a volcano comes with certain problems"

[@nicksothep8472]

Is this the site where the lava covers part of the structure? Which pretty much places the "pyramid" construction before the eruption, and effectively dating it millenia before the accepted time line?

[@pyramidreview8664]

nope

[@nicksothep8472]

@@pyramidreview8664 ok, do you by any chance know what I'm talking about? The lava only covers a small part of the base anyway, just to put things in order.

[@RogueReplicant]

@@pyramidreview8664 It isn't? So which one is the Mexican pyramid that geologists said, "That eruption happened 7,000 years ago" and the archeologists said, "There was no culture here at that time" to which the geologists replied, "That's not our problem."

[@RogueReplicant]

@@nicksothep8472 I know exactly what you're talking about. It is this pyramid. There's no way the construction was after the eruption. No way. (Ask a geologist). The construction was completed and then the eruption occurred. Geology ( a hard science akin to physics) asserts the eruption happened at least 7,000 years ago.

[@pyramidreview8664]

@@RogueReplicant Going to need a source for that

[@shiftynipples5734]

If the structure collapsed a lot they should call it collapsedalotle. Sorry that was a bad joke.

[@pyramidreview8664]

for a non-native speaker of nahuatl it's not bad!

[@puckingery915]

wouldn't "cone pyramid" be a bit more accurate? Like, GEOMETRY isn't a thing and shapes don't have correct names

[@RogueReplicant]

In 1995 a friend and I saw a metallic orb in this area. We were walking around Ciudad Universitaria among the volcanic wastelands and the orb appeared and stayed in the sky for 3 minutes, in broad daylight.

[@pyramidreview8664]

cool

[@guystoner7277]

Maybe a observatory have seen other round structures in s west

[@pyramidreview8664]

There are round ancient structures in Jalisco, Hidalgo, and Tamaulipas but very different from this one