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Monte Alban, Oaxaca
Monte Alban is a must-visit site if you’re spending time in Oaxaca. Here’s how to get there and what to see.
Great vistas greet those who scale the temples on Monte Albán's North Platform. The view above is toward the southwest from the North Platform's Building E across the Sunken Patio. At the top of the staircase in the middle foreground there are stumps of 12 great columns which once rose as much as 6 meters (20 ft.), supporting a great roof over the platform on which they rested. Beyond the columns you can see three of the buildings which line the west side of the Great Plaza. In this posting…
Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico
The ruins of this ancient Zapotec capital make up one of the most important archaeological sites in all of Latin America.
The Monte Albán Ruines are located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Temples such as the one pictured were once commonplace among different tribes, such as the Olmecs and Zapotecs.
Monte Alban, the most significant archaeological site in Oaxaca, was inhabited by Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Olmecs for more than 1,500 years. The artificial mounds, pyramids, canals, dams, and terraces in Monte Alban were carved out of a mountain, symbolizing a holy topography. The site with its ruins of magnificent bas-reliefs (having hieroglyphic inscriptions), tomb complex, […]
This images are part of a comisioned work of RBA publishers to ilustrate a collection of books about arqueology for National Geographic. 3D reconstruction of the city of Monte Albán, built by the zapotecs (the people of the clouds) on a mountain at 10 km. from the actual city of Oaxaca, México. In this project, the modeling work was made in collaboration with: - Andrés Armesto: https://www.artstation.com/armesto - Alejandro Soriano: https://www.artstation.com/alejandrosoriano - Carlos Paz…
