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 ...

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 ...

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 Colorado in May 2023, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States will return an ancient monstruo de la tierra ("Earth monster") statue to Mexico. The one-ton artifact dates from 800 to 400 BCE and belongs to the Olmec Civilization, an early ...

ALMAS (Alliance of Latinos Motivating Action in the Suburbs) is hosting “The Olmec Legacy: Art, Culture, and Influence” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Nichols Library, 200 Jefferson Ave. in ...

The Kimbell Art Museum announced Wednesday that it has acquired a statuette carved in jade from ancient Mesoamerica. “Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby,” circa 900– 00 B.C., was acquired in ...

Temporal dislocation-the sensation of experiencing multiple temporalities at once-can be felt inside three galleries of New York's Americas Society /Council of the Americas, now host to the latest ...

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Oct 25 (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 ...

Karl Taube has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was ...