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 ...

Olmec colossal heads, such as this one unearthed in the ... On a sweltering day in 1862 at the foot of the Tuxtla Mountains in the Mexican state of Veracruz, a farmworker was clearing a cornfield ...

Germany has returned two 3,000-year-old pre-Hispanic wooden statues from the Olmec civilisation to the Mexican authorities. Mexico says the artefacts were taken illegally from an Olmec ...

Ancient Greece is celebrated for its contributions to democracy, philosophy, and the arts, while the Olmecs of Mexico are ...

We asked the celebrated Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes ... that this person may have been a king: "For the Olmec we have these great colossal heads, we have thrones, portraits of kings and very ...