Lidar scans have revealed a 600-year-old fortified city in southern Mexico that boasted ball courts, roads, neighborhoods and ...

Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the remains of a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico, a new study finds. The technique, known as lidar (light detection and ranging), works by ...

in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica. The Zapotecs are an Indigenous people that continue to thrive in Mexico. In the 14th and 15th centuries, some of the Zapotec migrated to the southern Isthmus of ...