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 ...

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

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

Gail Borden Public Library’s new Olmec Origins exhibit, featuring 33 Olmec sculptures, makes its Kane County debut Nov. 13 at the main library in downtown Elgin. The large, ornately decorated heads ...

A fascinating exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, lifting the veil on Mesoamerica's earliest known civilization Olmecs, Pointe-à-Callière ...

This Olmec mask was worn around the neck as a pendant. It may have provided the wearer with a new identity as an ancestor or deity - perhaps as the Olmec rain god. The distinctive toothless, ...

The Olmecs come to light -- The Tulane Expedition and the Olmec world (1925-1926) -- The first excavations : Tres Zapotes (1938-1940) -- Stone heads in the jungle (1940) -- Fortuitous decisions at La ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Olmec stone mask (made around 2,500 years ago) found in Mexico I'm holding a face in my hand, ...

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 out ...

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 ...