As early as 700 B.C., the Zapotec people of Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley were ruled by lords living in the city of Monte Albán who practiced public rituals that reinforced their vast power. But around A.D.

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Today Mexico is the world’s largest Spanish speaking country but before the Spanish ever arrived there were many flourishing pre-Colombian civilizations here and some of their languages have still ...

Ta Cándido at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City looking at the Cheguigo Monolith with colleagues. (press image courtesy Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People)) The cinematic journey ...

For most of human history, the survival of specific languages has relied on one generation passing it on to the next — a process that, in many speech communities, unfolds naturally. But, according to ...

There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

Using laser scanning technologies, a researcher has identified a 15th-century city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The sprawling metropolis, known as Guiengola, was built by the Zapotecs, a ...