Sonoma Valley residents will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Zapotec rug weaving tradition this month when two members of a women’s cooperative in Oaxaca, Mexico, exhibit their works, ...

What Diego Huerta sees through his camera lens is a piece of the world that is just his. The Austin-based Mexican American photographer will be in residence with the Museum of Ventura County through ...

Velazquez is a "muxe," a word long used by the Zapotec people to refer to gay men. Pronounced MOO-shay, the word can today refer to anyone born male who doesn't identify with men's traditional gender ...

There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

Using laser scanning technologies, a researcher has identified a 15th-century city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The sprawling metropolis, known as Guiengola, was built by the Zapotecs, a ...