It’s not the kind of Los Angeles County map people expect to see. Instead of geographic markers, it shows languages. The Pico-Union and Westlake areas light up with red and green dots for households ...

The owl symbolizes night and death in Zapotec culture. Luis Gerardo Peña Torres / INAH Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an incredibly well-preserved Zapotec tomb dating back to the early ...

A carved stone stela depicting an owl has sat atop a Zapotec burial chamber at Suchilquitongo, Oaxaca, Mexico, for roughly 1,400 years. The monument, placed directly over Tomb 5, carries inscriptions ...

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A newly excavated Zapotec burial has yielded a fresh interpretation of the ancient, grisly Mesoamerican custom of removing thighbones from the dead. Across pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, femurs were ...

Ta Cándido at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City looking at the Cheguigo Monolith with colleagues. (press image courtesy Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People)) The cinematic journey ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade.

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 ...

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 ...