Project Lyobaa created a 3D model of a system of caves and passageways known as the “backdoor to Hell” in southern Mexico. The ancient Zapotecs believed the subterranean site to be an entrance to the ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) Oaxaca, Mexico - September 25, 2024 - A multidisciplinary research team led by the Mexican National Institute of History and Anthropology (INAH), the National Autonomous University ...

In 1674, a priest named Francisco de Burgoa published his account of visiting the ruins of the Zapotec city of Mitla in what is now Oaxaca in southern Mexico. He described a vast underground temple ...

The Catholic Church of San Pablo in Mitla was built on the foundations of an earlier Zapotec temple, according to the archaeologists. Marco M. Vigato via The Arx Project Hundreds of years ago ...

A hidden "entrance to the underworld" built by the ancient Zapotec culture has been discovered beneath a Catholic church in southern Mexico, according to a team of researchers using cutting-edge ...

ALL YOU NEEDED to do to find the “backdoor to Hell” was to search underneath what is known as the ancient Church Group site. Long thought to be nothing more than local legend, the lore proved correct.

Project Lyobaa created a 3D model of a system of caves and passageways known as the “backdoor to Hell” in southern Mexico. The ancient Zapotecs believed the subterranean site to be an entrance to the ...