The Zapotec civilization, which was around between 700 BC and 1521 AD, walled up these tunnels, but archaeologists have now discovered its entrance beneath a church in Mexico.

Where Women Rule the Roost - Keeping Zapotec Tradition Alive 11/21/2024 November 21, 2024. In the Mexican city of Juchitán, women run the economy and organize communal life.

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.

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 ...

Tunnels that the ancient Zapotec civilisation believed to be the 'entrance to the underworld' have been found penetrating deep into the earth beneath a centuries-old church.

A rchaeologists have discovered a series of ancient tunnels beneath a centuries-old church in southern Mexico, believed by the ancient Zapotec civilization to be the "entrance to the underworld ...

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 ...

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Guiengola, located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, was once a lively city with an organized urban layout, Ramón Celis’ research found. Thought to have been built sometime during the Post-Classic ...