Mystery Of The Mountain: Hidden In Plain View

Narrated by actor Memo Sauceda, “Mystery Of The Mountain: Hidden In Plain View” chronicles a most intriguing and remarkable story, and explores the question: what if one of the world's largest pyramids is waiting to be unearthed in Mexico?

For centuries, a rugged and venerated hilltop in Mexico has borne witness to the rise and fall of pre-Columbian societies, and to the creation and destruction of temples and pyramids.

It is also the focal point of a most unlikely mystery, and a possible sacred structure lost to history.

The program investigates one of the few clues that remains today: a 430-year-old map that was carefully redrawn and passed down from generation to generation.

The map depicts what would be one of the largest step pyramid structures in known history.

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Host and narrator, Memo Sauceda on the virtual set with La Malinche in the background.

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Reenactment: Conquistadors and the Battle of Cholula in 1612 - Cortez and his bad boys.

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Reenactment: Conquistadors systematically destroyed hundreds of ancient codices.

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Ancient map painters; reenactment of painting MCII.

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MCII depiction of ancient city of Cholula ceremonial sites.

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Reenactment: The priest and the discoverer at the convent of Cuauhtinchan.

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The priest shows Oroszco the Map of Cuauhtinchan, kept in hiding for hundreds of years.

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An overlay of the map on the Mexican landscape. It is a very large area.

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Artifacts found in the farmland surrounding Teoton, some more than 2,000 years old.

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The Great Cholula Pyramid with a Catholic Church on top, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. Purported to be the world’s largest pyramid by volume.

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The Hill, Teoton, in the center of the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley.

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Map shows four solsticial alignments over Teteolotitla.

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Distributed by American Public Television.