Great Pyramid of Cholula or Tlachihualtepetli at Puebla, Mexico. Temple built from the 3rd century BC to the 9th century AD was dedicated to Quetzalcoatl. Copied from Alexander von Humboldt's Vues des Codilleres, 1810. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1812. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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