A chance discovery in Veracruz uncovers the first Olmec colossal head and opens the mystery of Mesoamerica’s earliest powerful societies. From San Lorenzo and La Venta to lidar-revealed mega-centers ...

MEXICO CITY — A group performing a ritual poured grape juice, oil and other liquids over four Olmec "colossal head" stone sculptures, badly damaging some of Mexico’s most prized archaeological relics, ...

Gail Borden Public Library’s new Olmec Origins exhibit, featuring 33 Olmec sculptures, makes its Kane County debut Nov. 13 at the main library in downtown Elgin. The large, ornately decorated heads ...

The Olmec heads are arriving. The “Olmec Origins” culturally decorated heads exhibit will be opening at the Gail Borden Public Library at 270 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin. These heads were located at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

In the late 1850s, a farmer in southern Mexico was clearing a plot of forested land to cultivate corn when he stumbled upon a large object partially buried in the ground. At first, he thought it was ...

The United States will return an ancient monstruo de la tierra ("Earth monster") statue to Mexico. The one-ton artifact dates from 800 to 400 BCE and belongs to the Olmec Civilization, an early ...

Last Monday, March 11, artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone onto a blue Tesla Model 3. (all photos by and courtesy the artist) The car was donated by Colima 71, a ...

Fernando Ramirez allows himself to think big. He dreamed up an exhibition of alebrijes monumentales, larger-than-life, surreal creatures painted by Mexican artists at Cantigny Park in Wheaton. Ramirez ...

A water tank in Puebla, painted to look like a traditional Olmec colossal head sculpture has gone viral in Mexico. Footage published by the artist Yum Kíimil Lee shows the realistic tank-sculpture on ...

Copy of Olmec stone head. The head is large with prominent ears and chin. It is bald and wears a headdress. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...