The Odd “Stairways”
I suggest we take the "road less traveled" around the Sun Pyramid, that is, walk around the back by going straight north from the Museum, and then turn left at the north edge of the Pyramid. Along the back of the Pyramid we see numerous stepped constructions ascending the lower stages. These were internal buttresses that Batres exposed when he stripped off a considerable section of the Pyramid face. The iron gate closes off a tunnel excavated into the body of the Pyramid in the 1920s in an attempt to study its history of construction.
Written by Richard A. Diehl
