In the Silk Sanctuary of San Pedro Cajones in Oaxaca, Zapotec artisans work in partnership with silk worms to create ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of an ancient tomb's interior with intricate carvings and a close-up of a carved face. The mythical “Cloud People” have ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mexican officials are calling the discovery of a Zapotec tomb one of the country’s greatest archaeological finds of the last decade. The tomb, dated ...

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 ...

The indigenous hands behind California’s food industry finally have a seat at the table.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Copalita-Zimatan-Huatulco watersheds (CZH) lie South of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The CZH is pieced and held together by mangroves and corals in the South, and sinuous hills of pine-oak forests ...

Juan Luis, who moved to Los Angeles from a tiny town in Oaxaca and primarily speaks the indigenous language Zapotec, knew he was missing information about the pandemic changing life around him. In ...

The mythical “Cloud People” have descended from legend — straight into real life. Archaeologists in southern Mexico have uncovered a stunning 1,400-year-old tomb built by the ancient Zapotec ...