The enormous "Portal el Inframundo" (Eng. Portal to the Underworld), an ancient Olmec monument, has returned to Mexico after many ordeals. For nearly 3,000 years, it adorned the walls of the ...

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 ...

Jane Walsh, a Smithsonian anthropologist emerita, notes that the Olmecs are considered by many to be “the mother culture” of various subsequent Mesoamerican civilizations from southern Mexico ...

Commonly referred to by experts as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, the Olmec civilisation ruled parts of modern-day Mexico and Guatemala between 1200 to 400BC. They built pyramids ...

Pemex, Mexico's state oil giant, processes 898,153 barrels of crude daily, hitting just 45% capacity in February, the company reports. The new Olmeca ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule 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.

The people of this mask are the Olmec, who ruled in what's now Mexico for around a thousand years, from 1400 to 400 BC. They've been called the mother culture - the 'cultura madre' - of Central ...