Guiengola’s North Plaza—the only area of the Zapotec city not covered in a canopy of trees. Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis. According to Ramón Celis, evidence suggests that the fortified city ...

Guiengola's inhabitants eventually relocated to Tehuantepec, a small Mexican town 20 kilometers away, where their descendants still live today.

Guiengola is estimated to span 360 hectares of land and is said to have contained more than 1,100 buildings, temples, and ballcourts, along with four kilometers’ ...

Guiengola spans some 890 acres and once boasted more than 1,100 buildings, per the statement. It contained about 2.5 miles of walls, a web of roads, ...

An ancient Mexican archaeological site, originally thought to be a fortress, is actually a sprawling and well-preserved 600-year-old city. Built by the Zapotecs, the true extent of Guiengola ...

To learn more about a 15th-century city known as Guiengola, a team led by Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University in Canada, used lidar to map out the site in ...

Guiengola, located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, was once a lively city with an organized urban layout, Ramón Celis’ research found. Thought to have been built sometime during the Post-Classic ...

Guiengola was built by the Zapotec people, a pre-Columbian culture that emerged around 700 BC. Article continues below. Ramón Celis says evidence suggests that the city was abandoned just before ...

"Guiengola is like a city frozen in time," Ramón Celis noted. "It offers a snapshot of Zapotec life before the cultural upheavals brought by the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century." ...

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Guiengola: The 15th-century Zapotec 'time capsule' unearthed in Oaxaca's jungles Using LiDAR technology, researchers reveal over 1,170 structures including temples and ball courts, offering a ...

To learn more about a 15th-century city known as Guiengola, a team led by Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University in Canada, used lidar to map out the site in ...