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 ...

"This dissertation contributes to a growing body of literature which considers the problems of redacted histories, re-formed memories, and competing identities in relation to the Olmec societies of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. They located the ruins by ...

The de Young Museum's "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," which opens today, gets a thrilling, uncluttered presentation. At the entrance to the exhibition hangs a photo mural of ...

Starting around 1200 B.C., in southern Mexico, the Olmec created what most scholars agree was the first New World civilization, building large cities with monumental architecture, carving reliefs of ...

COVINA – The City Council last week voted 4-1 to relocate a 7-ton colossal Olmec head to Jalapa Park against the wishes of Councilman Bob Low. Low cast the lone vote dissenting against the relocation ...

The dramatic collapse of the Mayan civilisation 1000 years ago is one of the world’s enduring archaeological mysteries. But how the Maya got started in the first place is no less mysterious. Now newly ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in ...