Monte Alban Sunrise
Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples (Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs) the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of M...
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Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples (Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs) the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of Monte Alban were literally carved out of the mountain and are the symbols of a sacred topography.
Being visible from anywhere in the central part of the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico, the impressive ruins of Monte Alban attracted visitors and explorers throughout the colonial and modern eras.
Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BC, by 100 BC-AD 200, Monte Alban had become the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states such as Teotihuacan to the north.
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Being visible from anywhere in the central part of the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico, the impressive ruins of Monte Alban attracted visitors and explorers throughout the colonial and modern eras.
Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BC, by 100 BC-AD 200, Monte Alban had become the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states such as Teotihuacan to the north.
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