The muxe — Indigenous Zapotec people in Mexico — view themselves as neither man nor woman. They embrace a distinct 'third gender,' part of a burgeoning LGBTQ+ movement worldwide.

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.

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 ...

Evidence points to the Zapotec civilization, which followed the Olmecs, as the birthplace of Mesoamerica’s first written calendar. 5. The Andean Civilizations ©Leonid Andronov/Shutterstock.com.

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 ...

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.

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 ...