Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the remains of a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico, a new study finds.

Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis ...

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Using LiDAR technology, researchers reveal over 1,170 structures including temples and ball courts, offering a snapshot of pre-Columbian Zapotec life.

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in ...