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 ...

Last Monday, March 11, artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone onto a blue Tesla Model 3. (all photos by and courtesy the artist) The car was donated by Colima 71, a ...

Three thousand years ago, in what is now southern Mexico, Olmec art and culture flourished. No written documents survive, but the exceptional beauty and technical brilliance of the sculpture and its ...

ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. Materializing the San Lorenzo Olmecs / David Cheetham and Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Defining early Olmec style pottery: techniques, forms ...

For more than 100 years, no one knew exactly where it was, only that it was gone. Somewhere along the way, a massive stone carving created nearly 2,700 years ago by the Olmecs quietly slipped out of ...

Graham Hancock, on the Joe Rogan Experience, explores the Olmec civilization, suggesting their art, astronomy, and colossal heads hint at influence from a lost advanced culture predating known history ...