"This dissertation contributes to a growing body of literature which considers the problems of redacted histories, re-formed memories, and competing identities in relation to the Olmec societies of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

In today's video, we dive into my expeditions in the Olmec world of Central & Southern Mexico. I saw a ton of megalithic Olmec statues & monuments that most people have never seen. There is so much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. They located the ruins by ...

An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...

Starting around 1200 B.C., in southern Mexico, the Olmec created what most scholars agree was the first New World civilization, building large cities with monumental architecture, carving reliefs of ...

Geochemical analysis now traces the Stonehenge Altar Stone to outcrops in northeast Scotland, roughly 750 km from the ...

The dramatic collapse of the Mayan civilisation 1000 years ago is one of the world’s enduring archaeological mysteries. But how the Maya got started in the first place is no less mysterious. Now newly ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – 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 ...