Monte Albán

American  

[mawn-te ahl-bahn] / ˈmɔn tɛ ɑlˈbɑn /

noun

1. a major ceremonial center of the Zapotec culture, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, occupied from 600 b.c. to a.d. 700.

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Example Sentences

Monte Albán itself was likely selected for defensive reasons.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Before we even saw Monte Albán or Mitla, we loved Oaxaca.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 28, 2016

Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Zapotec people built Monte Albán, a monumental city on a hill outside town; they worshipped a bat god and a human-jaguar-snake god, who brought rain and lightning.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

Photographs taken at the ancient Mayan temple site of Monte Albán near Oaxaca during one of the couples' many trips to Mexico unravel some of the mind-bending complexities in Albers' exquisite woven textile patterns.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2016

Monte Albán was home to around 15,000 people.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012