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 ...
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The Zapotecs were a major pre-Hispanic civilization that flourished in Oaxaca from circa 700-500 BC until the Spanish conquest. A Zapotec tomb from 600 CE was discovered by Mexico’s National Institute ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oaxaca-based artists Jacobo and María Ángeles, the creators behind Sonoma Botanical Garden’s current special exhibition, ...
Andres Henestrosa Morales, a prolific poet, essayist and journalist whose lyrical writings helped raise the cultural profile of Mexico’s indigenous people, particularly the Zapotec Indians of southern ...
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 ...
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This carved, painted Zapotec tomb is Mexico's most important archaeological discovery in a decade
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 ...
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