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

Researchers have discovered a 600-year-old lost city "frozen in time" in southern Mexico. Using groundbreaking technology, an ...

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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 ...

View of Guiengola’s North Plaza. Credit: HJPD / CC BY-SA 3.0 A 600-year-old lost fortified city built by the Zapotec people in the 1400s has been uncovered in southern Mexico, challenging long-held ...

A 600-year-old lost fortified city built by the Zapotec people in the 1400s has been uncovered in southern Mexico, challenging long-held beliefs that the site was merely a military outpost. The city, ...

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

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 ...