CHICAGO (CBS)— Massive heads are turning heads in the western suburbs and they can be considered clues to a part of North ...

The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most popular among the Mesoamerican civilizations, but the Olmecs came first.

The Olmec were an early Mesoamerican civilization that existed during the Formative period (1800BCE–300CE). While they are often associated with producing colossal heads, they also engaged in ...

ALMAS (Alliance of Latinos Motivating Action in the Suburbs) is hosting “The Olmec Legacy: Art, Culture, and Influence” from ...

In a video, Mármol says “the Olmec head imposes itself before the technological object,” crushing it. “As technological as it ...

Pre-Columbian Mexico was one of world's cradles of civilization, and home to civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec ...

Olmec stone mask (made around 2,500 years ago) found in Mexico I'm holding a face in my hand, and it's very definitely a face, and not a head. It's made in polished green stone, and it's hollowed ...

Germany has returned two 3,000-year-old pre-Hispanic wooden statues from the Olmec civilisation to the Mexican authorities. Mexico says the artefacts were taken illegally from an Olmec ...

In addition to Saint Michael’s Day, another commemoration was occurring: the next day (Monday) the state of Morelos had a holiday. It was the birthday of Father Jose Maria Morelos y Pavin (born 1765), ...

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 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 ...