Besides
being one of the earliest cities of Mesoamerica, Monte Albán's importance stems
also from its role as the pre-eminent Zapotec socio-political and economic
center for close to a thousand years.
Founded around 500 BC, the city had lost
its political pre-eminence by the end of the Late Classic (ca. AD 500-750) and
soon thereafter was largely abandoned.
Small-scale reoccupation, opportunistic
reutilization of earlier structures and tombs, and ritual visitations marked
the archaeological history of the site into the Colonial period.
--Wikipedia
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