That is, until locals discovered ancient Zapotec ruins and carvings dating ... that among the wealth of discoveries “87 glyphs, or symbols, have been found so far.” Some of the depictions ...

MEXICO CITY, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare ... bark paper or animal skins that incorporate complex symbols and mythic scenes. Some of the latest murals ...

For the first time, symbols came to define the lifeblood of a population and found their voice. Zapotec weavers like Alex Mendoza carry on the visual traditions of their people, ensuring that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using LiDAR technology, researchers reveal over 1,170 structures including temples and ball courts, offering a snapshot of pre-Columbian Zapotec life. An ancient mystery buried for centuries ...

“The newly discovered chambers and tunnels directly relate to the ancient Zapotec beliefs and concepts of the underworld and confirm the veracity of the colonial accounts that speak of the ...

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 ...

Farrelly and Gutiérrez Lorenzo, a Zapotec speaker and community member, are colleagues in the Department of Linguistics at CU Boulder. They joined forces to develop a Global Seminar based in Teotitlán ...