| Object Name: | Monte Alban. View of Zapotec-Mixtec tombs |
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| Creation Date: | 200-1400 AD | |
| Culture: | Zapotec | |
| Site: | Monte Alban | |
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| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| During the Mexican excavations of the 1930s, Alfonso Caso and his colleagues uncovered 170 underground tombs at Monte Alban, most of them Classic in date with evidence of reutilization in the Post-Classic, and many of them very elaborate. | ||
