Located in the state of Oaxaca, around 17 miles from the Pacific coast, the city was built by the Zapotec civilization, one of the most influential pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica.

However, new research has found that it is now known to be overgrown ruins of a 15th-century Zapotec city. Guiengola is estimated to span 360 hectares of land and is said to have contained more than 1 ...

OAXACA, MEXICO—According to a Newsweek report, Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of McGill University and his colleagues spotted the remains of more than 1,000 structures built by the Zapotec in ...