Fortress Discovered by LiDAR Turns Out to be Lost Zapotec Center with Temples and Ball Courts

 

A recent LiDAR survey in southern Mexico has revealed that a known site of pre-Colombian fortifications was actually a thriving urban center of 5,000 people or more. Despite being known to Spanish explorers, modern historians, and archaeologists, the site of Guiengola in the hills above the modern town of Santo Domingo Tehuantepac is now understood […]

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