MEXICO CITY, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said late on Wednesday ...

Ramiro Ruiz, a caretaker of the archaeological grounds of San Pablo Villa de Mitla in southern Mexico, descends into a tomb belonging to the site’s ancient Zapotec ruins.Credit... Supported by ...

A hidden "entrance to the underworld" built by the ancient Zapotec culture has been discovered beneath a Catholic church in southern Mexico, according to a team of researchers using cutting-edge ...

In the town of Juchitán de Zaragoza, located on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, one variation of a local legend goes something like this. San Vicente Ferrer ...

Archaeologists in Oaxaca found five pre-Hispanic tombs, all over 800 years old, with colorful murals from the Zapotec people, photos show. Photo from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and ...

Tunnels that the ancient Zapotec civilisation believed to be the 'entrance to the underworld' have been found beneath a centuries-old church. Mitla, meaning place of the dead, was a city in ...

Guiengola, which was built by the indigenous Zapotec people, is located in the south of the state of Oaxaca, some 17 miles from the pacific coastline. Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill ...

With a grant from the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES), Associate Teaching Professor Rai Farrelly and Assistant Professor Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo are working together ...

The Zapotec also constructed a road network and defensive walls—some still preserved up to five metres in height. Unlike other ancient settlements in Mexico, which continued to be inhabited ...

Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the remains of a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico, a new study finds. The technique, known as lidar (light detection and ranging), works by ...

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In the upper part of the CZH, embraced by this biodiversity, lies the municipality of San Miguel Suchixtepec, a community of roughly 3,000 people. The residents of San Miguel are mostly of Zapotec ...