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Show TO RESTORE WORLD WONDER Mexican Government Will Remove Debris Covering Great Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. Not only are the two great pyra-I pyra-I mids, those of the sun and the moon, situated near San Juan de Teotihua-' Teotihua-' can, Mex., to be restored to their original or-iginal lines, but the Mexican government govern-ment has made an appropriation for excavating and reconstructing the ruins of the great buried city surrounding sur-rounding the pyramids, which flourished flour-ished more than 4,000 years ago. During Dur-ing the last four years immediately preceding the revolutionary period, considerable work had been done in the matter of clearing away the accumulation ac-cumulation of debris that covered the pyramid of the sun, and it stands forth .today as one of the greatest wonders of the world, according to archeolo-gists. archeolo-gists. This pyramid is three times as large as the great Cheops pyramid near Cairo, Egypt, and in its construction construc-tion giant blocks of stone were used. It is 1,400 feet square at the bottom. In height it is only 200 feet, and but for this fact would be one of the most imposing structures ever made by man, it is stated. The pyramid of the sun is smaller than the one of the moon. |