An ancient mystery buried for centuries beneath the dense forests of southern Mexico has been unveiled: a sprawling 600-year-old fortified city called Guiengola. Built by the Zapotec people in the ...

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in ...

Now, through a combination of airborne lidar mapping—which uses laser beams to create a 3D topographical map—and ground surveys, Ramón Celis has revealed that Guiengola was a sprawling city ...

Sixteen Indigenous Zapotec communities in Mexico have created over 579 water infrastructure projects, including absorption wells, small dams and water pans, to conserve water in the Oaxaca Valley ...

Mexico has a long printmaking tradition, and Oaxaca emerged as one of its centers in the 1970s. A 2006 civil conflict in the state gave the politicized art movement new drive.

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 of the find that sheds new ...

In 1674, a priest named Francisco de Burgoa published his account of visiting the ruins of the Zapotec city of Mitla in what is now Oaxaca in southern Mexico. He described a vast underground ...