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 John L. Stephens was the first to mention Cobá. A local priest told him of its existence when Stephens was in the Yucatán in 1842. Yucatecans José Peón Contreras and D. Elizalde made cursory sketches of the major structures in 1886, and Theobert Maler took the first photograph of Nohoch Mul, the tallest pyramid in the peninsula, in 1891. The first official exploration of Cobá took place in 1926 when a group of Carnegie Institute archaeologists headed by J.S.E. Thompson, Harry Pollack and Jean Charlot toured the site.
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