Twenty-five years ago, Fox unleashed a titillating new reality show called Temptation Island on an unsuspecting public — and ...

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

In the early 20th century, looters extracted a gargantuan stone from Chalcatzingo in Morelos, Mexico a six-by-five-foot Olmec Cave Mask showing the jaguar god Tepeyollotlicuhti, protector of the ...

Mexican Cultural Center DuPage (MCCD) in coordination with Meztli Mexico and in partnership with the College of DuPage Public Art Project (COD) and the DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau (DCVB) ...

Ancient civilisations are the foundations on which our modern world is built. From the innovative Sumerians to the world-conquering Romans, these societies changed the course of history in significant ...

What do Frankenstein, a cardboard wine carton, and funky TV host Mark L. Walberg have in common? They all played a key role in the creation of one of Nickelodeon’s most beloved game shows, Legends of ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s ...

In my book, Olmec Language and Literature, I explain how I deciphered the Olmec language. One of the most important documents used in my research was a Bi-lingual Mayan-Olmec text inscribed on a brick ...

Mexico is perhaps most well-known, archaeologically speaking, as the home of the Aztec civilization. Yet, before the arrival of the Aztecs, another sophisticated civilization, the Olmecs, ruled the ...

Olmec Stone Head. Credit: Quite Peculiar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most well-known Mesoamerican civilizations, but, in fact, the Olmecs pre-existed them. The Olmecs were the ...

Studio Saturday weaving at the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) in Chicago (photo by Beto de Frietas, courtesy NMMA) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by ...