LiDAR Reveals Abandoned Fort Was Actually a Lost Zapotec City with Temples and Ball Courts

A recent LiDAR survey in southern Mexico has revealed that a known site of pre-Colombian fortifications was actually a thriving urban center of 5,000 people or more. Despite being known to Spanish explorers, modern historians, and archaeologists, the site of Guiengola in the hills above the modern town of Santo Domingo Tehuantepac is now understood […] The post LiDAR Reveals Abandoned Fort Was Actually a Lost Zapotec City with Temples and Ball Courts appeared first on Good News Network.

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