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 ...

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 ...

"Proceedings of the symposium 'Olmec art and archaeology in Mesoamerica: social complexity in the formative period,' ... The symposium was held 19-21 September 1996 in Washington"--T.p. verso.

Tak’alik Ab’aj, a 1,700-year-old Guatemalan archaeological site associated with the rise of early Mayan civilization, was added Monday to UNESCO’s world heritage list. Tak’alik Ab’aj was a ...

ALMAS (Alliance of Latinos Motivating Action in the Suburbs) is hosting “The Olmec Legacy: Art, Culture, and Influence” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Nichols Library, 200 Jefferson Ave. in ...

The Kimbell Art Museum announced Wednesday that it has acquired a statuette carved in jade from ancient Mesoamerica. “Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby,” circa 900– 00 B.C., was acquired in ...

‘Lost Caverns of Ixalan’ centers Aztec, Olmec, Mayan culture in huge new ‘Magic: the Gathering’ set The world’s oldest trading card game, “Magic: The Gathering,” returns this week to a world drawn ...

(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 ...