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.

Archeologists 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 ...

In the late 1850s, a farmer in southern Mexico was clearing a plot of forested land to cultivate corn when he stumbled upon a large object partially buried in the ground. At first, he thought it was ...

Similar ceremonial layouts connected ancient societies across Mexico’s Gulf Coast An unexpected architectural tradition linked many Olmec and Maya societies of Mesoamerica, an ancient cultural area ...

Dee Bradley Baker will reprise his role as the voice of Olmec, the large animatronic talking head, on The CW’s reboot of “Legends of the Hidden Temple.” “When we asked Dee Bradley Baker to return as ...

An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...

The de Young Museum's "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," which opens today, gets a thrilling, uncluttered presentation. At the entrance to the exhibition hangs a photo mural of ...

Olmec colossal heads, such as this one unearthed in the 19th century at the site of Tres Zapotes, are thought to be portraits of all-powerful kings.(De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images) On a ...