Archaeologists and law enforcement have spent years untangling the story behind a carved stone monument that quietly surfaced ...

Originally stolen sometime in the early 20th century, a “portal to the underworld” depicting the Olmec jaguar god ...

A 2,700-year-old Olmec Cave Mask, missing for over a century and fractured into 25 pieces, has finally returned to Mexico.

(Reuters) - Aerial remote-sensing of a large region of Mexico has revealed hundreds of ancient Mesoamerican ceremonial centers, including a large one at an important site for the ancient Olmec culture ...

The examination of an ancient "portal to the underworld" that has perplexed archaeologists has finally ended, officials say. The Mexican artifact, called the Olmec Cave Mask, was stolen from the ...

MEXICO CITY – A 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs, often referred to as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, has been discovered hundreds of miles away from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory ...

Archaeologists working on the Gulf coast of Mexico have uncovered a 3,000-year-old stone tablet that bears the oldest writing in the Western Hemisphere and the first text unambiguously linked to the ...

Three thousand years ago, in what is now southern Mexico, Olmec art and culture flourished. No written documents survive, but the exceptional beauty and technical brilliance of the sculpture and its ...

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 ...

Aerial remote-sensing of a large region of Mexico has revealed hundreds of ancient Mesoamerican ceremonial centers, including a large one at an important site for the ancient Olmec culture that is ...