SH Archive Uxmal Ruins: where are these pyramids?

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I can't seem to locate pyramids depicted on the image below. There are four pyramids in the image. Based on the description, these are supposed to be located in the ancient Mayan city of Uxmal.

• Uxmal - Wikipedia
• Uxmal | archaeological site, Mexico
• Uxmal Ruins - Yucatan

Image Information.

• Description: Five pyramids and a stone-block building stand on a flat landscape, varied only by some small bushes and a few large rocks. The sky occupies a great portion of the picture: the clouds breaking at top right reveal the moon, whose light illumines the pyramids. It is unclear whether the pyramid surfaces are bare or covered in vegetation.
• Date: 1843
• Source: Moonlight, Uxmal Ruins
• Related book: New Light from the Great Pyramid

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KD: If you run into these pyramids, please share your links. They appear to be buried, so I'm wondering what they look like today.

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Username: studytruth
Date: 2020-07-01 09:24:54
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I was at Uxmal 20 years ago. Let me dig up my mass of photos and see what can be seen in them.

By the way it was the only site in Mexico where I didn't feel safe...I don't mean physically but psychically, it was as if the site was trying to suck you in, or control you somehow. Lots of strange experiences that day.
Anyway off to find my photos

 

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2020-07-01 17:17:06
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Thank you. I’m just not sure why these pyramids do not pop up via a simple web search.

 

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Username: studytruth
Date: 2020-07-01 17:33:39
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Ok I have looked through all my photographs, and the site I went to in 1999 looks nothing like that image. First the weird three step structure I think is a 1 step structure that sits near the ball court, and from the angle I photographed it, the one main pyramid (of the magician) sits right behind it, you see the top of the structure overtop of the steps.
Beyond that I would either say a) the painting above is artistic licence of perhaps someone who was never even there and just painted from suggestions while being at a close by site, or those structures are gone.
But I don't see the ball court, I don't see a small pyramid (which had an odd skull and crossbones symbols all over it, where I fell and almost cracked my head open...and a few other things.

That image just does not match any of my photos.

 

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Username: Ningen04
Date: 2020-07-01 17:42:00
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Benjamin Moore Norman's Expedition to the Yucatán
After reading John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood’s account of their expedition to Central America (Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan), Benjamin Moore Norman traveled to the Yucatán in order to record a number of new Maya sites and to collect Maya antiquities for donations to museums in the United States; Catherwood and Stephens would not explore these sites, in the northern Yucatán, till 1843. Norman left New Orleans for Havana on November 26, 1841, and arrived in the Yucatan on December 20. After exploring a series of other sites, Norman arrived in Uxmal in early March of 1842, and would remain there shortly until his departure for Mérida. Norman’s description of the ruins relays little of his personal experiences at the site, excepting an account of his emotional reaction to the “sublime” nature of the ruins (Norman 166).

Sounds to me like we're going to find a lead in the work of this Benjamin Moore Norman fellow. I've found his Rambles in Yucatan book for free on Google Books and Imma search through it to see what I can find.

EDIT: Check it out for yourselves! See what you think. There's over 300 pages of this stuff and I can't sort through it all right now.

 

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Username: jd755
Date: 2020-07-01 18:05:42
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It's on gutenburg to.

 

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Username: HollyHoly
Date: 2020-07-01 19:21:44
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This guy is my Mexican go to so I new he had video on it Uxmal. House of the Dwarf. Apparently the jungle ate it?

 

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Username: igneous
Date: 2020-07-01 21:53:55
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It's on gutenburg to.

from Gutenberg: "confounded" meaning "confused, perhaps?"

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2020-07-01 22:22:04
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They took them to the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition.
No, really. They love setting up scenes of "exotic locales", some even from within the states.
Chicago had an Uxmal.

 

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2020-07-01 22:29:18
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They took them to the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition.
No, really. They love setting up scenes of "exotic locales", some even from within the states.
Chicago had an Uxmal.

I totally forgot about these:

• Restoration of Maya ruins at the 1893 Columbian exposition

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2020-07-01 22:53:19
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Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids by Peter Tompkins...

Sorry they're blurry and crooked. Had to attempt by myself.
Taken from Catherwood and his Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan originally from Harper Brothers publishing.
Ugh.
John Lloyd Stephens the author. Frederick Catherwood the illustrator.
He has a book of his own, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
Looks like the OP missed it by about eight years with that illustration.
One of my poor photos above describes facades supposedly existing as late as 1835 anyway.
Obvious when you look at old illustrations to notice the entire place was flooded. And then overgrown.