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 ...

In early 2025, archaeologists used 3D laser imaging technology (LiDAR) to explore below the thick forest canopy of the jungle of southern Oaxaca. There they made an amazing discovery. What was thought ...

The discovery, announced on Friday, offers fresh insight into the beliefs, power structures and burial customs of one of ...

Archaeology influencer Señor Blue found a tomb with ancient Mixtec artifacts in Oaxaca, drawing criticism both of his actions ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of Mexican natives migrate to California every year. Most speak Spanish. But others do not speak Spanish at all. Some speak an indigenous language called Zapotec. Now, San Diego State ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After the killing last week of an Indigenous ...