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

Archaeologists and law enforcement have spent years untangling the story behind a carved stone monument that quietly surfaced ...

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, ...

Mexico announced Friday that a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned from the United States. The almost six-foot-tall (two-meter) “Monster of the Earth” sculpture appears to ...

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

(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 culture ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered two Olmec reliefs chiseled into large, circular stones that are thought to depict local rulers performing ritual contortion. The twin pieces were found in ...

MEXICO CITY – A 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs, often referred to as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, has been discovered hundreds of miles away from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory ...

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 ...

VILLAHERMOSA, MexicoVILLAHERMOSA, Mexico — Mexico is restoring nearly two dozen pre-Hispanic Olmec sculptures damaged by an American woman and two Mexican men. The three were arrested Sunday for ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says German authorities have returned two rare, wooden Olmec sculptures over 3,000 years old. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said Tuesday the ...