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 ...

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.

Advanced civilizations like the Maya, Aztec, and Zapotec with complex societies and architecture. World’s ancient civilizations Mesoamerican Civilizations (c. 1200 BCE - 1521 CE) ...

Atzompa was built between 650 and 850 C.E. as a satellite city to Monte Albán, as the Zapotec civilization expanded in the region, according to Heritage Daily. Atzompa is situated on a hill ...

An archaeologist has revealed a sprawling, lost 15th-century city in southern Mexico at a site that was long thought to have been merely a garrison for soldiers.. Guiengola, which was built by the ...

Archaeologists may have found ruins of fabled entrance to Zapotec underworld Spanish missionaries deemed Lyobaa to be a "back door to hell" and sealed all entrances.