I met Lily one early January morning at a donut shop off the highway, about a 30-minute drive from Oaxaca City. Lily ...

Relocating to Mexico provided artist Carter Peabody with a renewed sense of purpose and inspired the creation of a ...

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 ...

Jacobo and María Ángeles are creators of the exhibit that is inspired by the ancient Zapotec legend that assigns spirit animals to dates of birth.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see a stone church in a desert setting. A hidden "entrance to the underworld" built by the ancient Zapotec culture has been ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade.

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 ...

I’m in the kitchen with Francisco Bautista on a hot summer day and he’s holding a jar of dead bugs. He scoops a few into his hand, adds a couple drops of lime juice, and as he begins crushing the bugs ...

Collage of an ancient tomb's interior with intricate carvings and a close-up of a carved face. The mythical “Cloud People” have descended from legend — straight into real life. Archaeologists in ...