Located in the state of Oaxaca, around 17 miles from the Pacific coast, the city was built by the Zapotec civilization, one of the most influential pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica.

Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis ...

The Zapotec civilization, one of Mesoamerica's earliest societies, built Monte Alban, among North America's first major cities. This urban center housed 25,000 people and endured for over 1,200 years.

The updated perspective of Guiengola, featured in a November study published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica, illustrates the political and social workings of the Zapotec civilization, which met ...

Evidence points to the Zapotec civilization, which followed the Olmecs, as the birthplace of Mesoamerica’s first written calendar. The Andean Civilization was a complex society that lived along ...

Built by the Zapotec people in the 1400s ... For now, Guiengola remains hidden beneath the jungle, a silent sentinel of a civilization that once thrived against all odds. The article was written ...

Archaeologists uncover tunnels beneath a Mexican church, believed to be the "entrance to the underworld" by the ancient Zapotec civilization. Named the "place of the dead," Mitla once housed ...

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 ...