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El Tajin - Piramide de los nichos

Piramide de los nichos, El Tajin, Veracruz, Mexico
A reconstruction of its possible original aspect.
Note that the colors changed many times along the centuries of use of the monument, so, these colors are just meant to show one possible version of it, based on the polychromatic data collected by archaeologists.
Most of the cities of Mesoamerica were colorful, much more than we usually picture them.

The thatch roof is theorical. The ruins of the building don't give clue to wht type of roof the temple had, but such roofs are sometimes depicted in the mesoamerican iconography, which means some temples did support such high rise vegetal-material roof.