Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis ...

Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the remains of a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico, a new study finds.

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

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional archaeological methods, which require walking the dense jungle terrain to identify ...

but it didn't disappear entirely — today over 300,000 Zapotec people live in the state of Oaxaca, many still speaking the Zapotec languages and practicing cultural traditions. Although Guiengola is no ...

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That’s how the Indigenous people of the Americas have done it for thousands of years, including the Zapotec people with whom Villatoro identifies. “My grandma was already waiting for me ...

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