4. TEMPLE OF THE SEVEN DOLLS (TEMPLE OF THE SUN), DZIBILCHALTUN (c.500) When discovered, the temple was entirely filled with rocks and covered by the ruins of larger pyramid built on top of it around 800. Archaeologists removed the later temple but left its terraces on the south to give some idea of its dimensions. The terraces of this third temple were extended to the bottom of the steps of the second on each of its four sides resulting in a Greek cross shape with flights of steps projecting in front of them visible to the right in this photo.. It required four terraces just to reach the top of the old temple's facade and a fifth to cover the central shaft; the space remaining for a cella would have been quite small. The stonework as elsewhere at Dzibilchaltun is characteristic of the Peten not the nearby Puuc hills.. An idea of what may have been intended is provided by Structure 36, (see slide 8,) in a sense, paired with it at the opposite end of the 1.3km sacbe stretching to the west. It has six terraces but only a single southeast- facing staircase; the third Temple of the Sun may have had just one flight of steps on the south as well.