In case you need a fact-check:

And, while it is true that the two pyramids have similar dimensions (at the bottom), the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan does not have a square base, it has a rectangular base.

The Great Pyramid in Giza is also twice as high as the Pyramid of the Sun.

  • Oh. OK, right, there’s an Antarctica on the top asked the bottom, which means the no-land-mass North Pole overlays Antarctica.

    OK, I see it now, thanks.

    I still think this would be nicely done as a butterfly projection; I’m still uncertain about whether the distortion of the projection would affect overlap accuracy. OT1H, N/S are equally distorted, so maybe it all washes out? OTOH, I’m suspicious of Mercator projections. Do you know?

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      The Mercator projection only distorts N/S, and the distortion is symmetrical about the equator. So it shouldn’t make a difference in this case. since corresponding points on both the right side up and upside down map are equidistant from the equator.