The muxe — Indigenous Zapotec people in Mexico — view themselves as neither man nor woman. They embrace a distinct 'third gender,' part of a burgeoning LGBTQ+ movement worldwide.

Villagers in Mexico just uncovered 2,500-year-old ruins of the Zapotec "Cloud People" on a 6,000-foot mountaintop. The ruins include at least 87 carvings of animals and one of a woman who ...

Tunnels that the ancient Zapotec civilisation believed to be the 'entrance to the underworld' have been found penetrating deep into the earth beneath a centuries-old church.

Muxes, a group long recognized within the indigenous Zapotec people of Mexico, are often referred to as a third gender. Embodying characteristics of both men and women, their existence challenges ...

The Plataforma Sur, meanwhile, is the tallest construction in Monte Alban at 40 m (131 ft) high and is easily identified by its two bodied-façade and the steles of Zapotec glyphs inside. In the Juego ...

A hidden "entrance to the underworld" built by the ancient Zapotec culture has been discovered beneath a Catholic church in southern Mexico, according to a team of researchers using cutting-edge ...

Farrelly and Gutiérrez Lorenzo, a Zapotec speaker and community member, are colleagues in the Department of Linguistics at CU Boulder. They joined forces to develop a Global Seminar based in Teotitlán ...

Brightly-painted Zapotec murals invoking warfare recently unearthed from tombs in southern Mexico may date back nearly 2,000 years, officials said late on Wednesday of the find that sheds new ...

Archaeologists may have found ruins of fabled entrance to Zapotec underworld Spanish missionaries deemed Lyobaa to be a "back door to hell" and sealed all entrances.