This summer and fall, Naperville is shining a spotlight on Latin American culture. And at the crux of celebration is a pair of hand-painted colossal heads. Over the next few months, Naperville will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two carved sculptures of heads as seen in a museum. . When they were made: 1200 to 400 B.C. What they tell us about the past: Of ...

The Olmec heads are arriving. The “Olmec Origins” culturally decorated heads exhibit will be opening at the Gail Borden Public Library at 270 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin. These heads were located at ...

Fernando Ramirez allows himself to think big. He dreamed up an exhibition of alebrijes monumentales, larger-than-life, surreal creatures painted by Mexican artists at Cantigny Park in Wheaton. Ramirez ...

Gail Borden Public Library’s new Olmec Origins exhibit, featuring 33 Olmec sculptures, makes its Kane County debut Nov. 13 at the main library in downtown Elgin. The large, ornately decorated heads ...

A water tank in Puebla, painted to look like a traditional Olmec colossal head sculpture has gone viral in Mexico. Footage published by the artist Yum Kíimil Lee shows the realistic tank-sculpture on ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)—Massive heads are turning heads in the western suburbs and they can be considered clues to a part of North American history that isn't widely discussed, but they're on display in the ...

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