Though he didn’t realize it at the time, he had just discovered an Olmec head, an artifact created by one of oldest and most important civilizations in the Americas. Since then, a total of 17 ...

A lot of what we know about them first sprang from the discovery of these monumental Olmec heads. Some of them are 11 feet high, and some of them are 50 tons," said Justin Witte, curator from the ...

The enormous "Portal el Inframundo" (Eng. Portal to the Underworld), an ancient Olmec monument, has returned to Mexico after many ordeals. For nearly 3,000 years, it adorned the walls of the ...

In the 1960s, scholars hypothesized that it was “epi-Olmec,” a late language of the Olmec people, the most ancient known Mesoamerican civilization, which predated the height of Mayan ...

The people of this mask are the Olmec, who ruled in what's now Mexico for around a thousand years, from 1400 to 400 BC. They've been called the mother culture - the 'cultura madre' - of Central ...