The Hill of FlowersNear Tezcuco is Xochicalco (The Hill of Flowers), ateocallithe sculpture of which is both beautifuland luxuriant in design. The porphyry quarries from which the great blocks, 12 feet in length, were cut lie many miles away. As late as 1755 the structure towered to a height of five stories, but the vandal has done his work only too well, and a few fragmentary carvings of exquisite design are all that to-day remain of one of Mexico’s most magnificent pyramids.Ruins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoRuins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoPhoto C. B. Waite, Mexico
The Hill of FlowersNear Tezcuco is Xochicalco (The Hill of Flowers), ateocallithe sculpture of which is both beautifuland luxuriant in design. The porphyry quarries from which the great blocks, 12 feet in length, were cut lie many miles away. As late as 1755 the structure towered to a height of five stories, but the vandal has done his work only too well, and a few fragmentary carvings of exquisite design are all that to-day remain of one of Mexico’s most magnificent pyramids.Ruins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoRuins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoPhoto C. B. Waite, Mexico
The Hill of FlowersNear Tezcuco is Xochicalco (The Hill of Flowers), ateocallithe sculpture of which is both beautifuland luxuriant in design. The porphyry quarries from which the great blocks, 12 feet in length, were cut lie many miles away. As late as 1755 the structure towered to a height of five stories, but the vandal has done his work only too well, and a few fragmentary carvings of exquisite design are all that to-day remain of one of Mexico’s most magnificent pyramids.Ruins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoRuins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoPhoto C. B. Waite, Mexico
The Hill of FlowersNear Tezcuco is Xochicalco (The Hill of Flowers), ateocallithe sculpture of which is both beautifuland luxuriant in design. The porphyry quarries from which the great blocks, 12 feet in length, were cut lie many miles away. As late as 1755 the structure towered to a height of five stories, but the vandal has done his work only too well, and a few fragmentary carvings of exquisite design are all that to-day remain of one of Mexico’s most magnificent pyramids.Ruins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoRuins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoPhoto C. B. Waite, Mexico
The Hill of Flowers
Near Tezcuco is Xochicalco (The Hill of Flowers), ateocallithe sculpture of which is both beautifuland luxuriant in design. The porphyry quarries from which the great blocks, 12 feet in length, were cut lie many miles away. As late as 1755 the structure towered to a height of five stories, but the vandal has done his work only too well, and a few fragmentary carvings of exquisite design are all that to-day remain of one of Mexico’s most magnificent pyramids.Ruins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoRuins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoPhoto C. B. Waite, Mexico
Near Tezcuco is Xochicalco (The Hill of Flowers), ateocallithe sculpture of which is both beautifuland luxuriant in design. The porphyry quarries from which the great blocks, 12 feet in length, were cut lie many miles away. As late as 1755 the structure towered to a height of five stories, but the vandal has done his work only too well, and a few fragmentary carvings of exquisite design are all that to-day remain of one of Mexico’s most magnificent pyramids.
Ruins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoRuins of the Pyramid of XochicalcoPhoto C. B. Waite, Mexico
Ruins of the Pyramid of Xochicalco
Photo C. B. Waite, Mexico