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

Visitors can head into these mountains alone. But everything we read recommended hiring a guide for a much deeper experience ...

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

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

Built by the Zapotec people in the 1400s, the discovery challenges long-held beliefs that the site was merely a military outpost. Using cutting-edge laser technology known as Light Detection and ...

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 ...

Guiengola was built by the Zapotec people, a pre-Columbian culture that emerged around 700 BC. Article continues below Ramón Celis says evidence suggests that the city was abandoned just before ...