Great Pyramid of La Venta, Tabasco

The north face of the Great Pyramid at La Venta, the Olmec center in Tabasco, Mexico. It looks like a grassy hill because it is one: a mound of clay and earth about 30 meters high, raised by the Olmecs and finished around 400 BCE, when stone was scarce on the Gulf Coast lowlands. It is one of the earliest pyramids known in Mesoamerica and has never been excavated, which makes it the right starting point for everything in this gallery.