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Monte Albn is a vast pre-Columbian archaeological site in a southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above a plain in a central territory of a Valley of Oaxaca.

It was one of a earliest cities of Mesoamerica. Founded around 500 BC, by 100 BC Monte Albn had became a collateral of a large-scale expansionist nicely which dominated most of a Oaxacan highlands as well as interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states such as Teotihuacan to a north.

The city had lost its political pre-eminence by a end of a Late Classic (ca. AD 500-750) as well as soon thereafter was mostly abandoned. Small-scale reoccupation, opportunistic reutilization of earlier structures as well as tombs, as well as ritual visitations marked a archaeological story of a site in to a Colonial period.


Monte Alban
Oaxaca de Juarez
Oaxaca, Mexico


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