Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an incredibly well-preserved Zapotec tomb dating back to the early seventh century. The tomb boasts intricately carved walls, murals and sculptures—including a ...
The Zapotecs were a major pre-Hispanic civilization that flourished in Oaxaca from circa 700-500 BC until the Spanish ...
In Huitzo, Oaxaca, two experts explore the intricacies of the Tomb of the Owl, one of the most important discoveries in ...
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It has been hailed as 'the most significant archaeological discovery in a decade.' Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,400-year-old tomb in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca that had been lost to ...
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has called it ”the most important archaeological finding of the last decade” ...
Lecturer Felipe Lopez has a doctorate in urban planning from UCLA, but his UCLA office is in the indigenous languages of the Americas program. This quarter, Lopez is teaching elementary Zapotec, the ...
This story first appeared on Felicia Lee’s Open Salon blog. Tortillas are sacred in the Zapotec village of San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca. Devotees worship them by ripping them into little pieces and ...
The latest installment in the Worlds of Difference series documenting the impact of global change on local cultures comes from Yaganiza, an indigenous pueblo in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.