Thousands of locals are protesting the construction of a National Olmec Museum in Villahermosa, Tabasco, citing a risk of ecocide.

Supporters of Arizona's national monuments rallied at two sites, one in Tucson and one near the Grand Canyon, to protest a plan by the Trump administration to open the land to mining. The rally ...

The Olmec heads are among the largest non-architectural monuments ever discovered in Mexico, ranging between roughly 3.5 and 11.5 feet in height and weighing up to eight tons, with the largest of ...

Crews installed a 20,000-pound stone Olmec head in the Lied Jungle at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium on Thursday.

An Olmec colossal head, known as the San Lorenzo Monument. Credit: Maribel Ponce Ixba (frida27ponce) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 The Olmecs were an ancient Mesoamerican civilization that inhabited ...

The legislation, which Republicans introduced in both House and Senate, would strip the president’s authority to create national monuments, reserving that power to Congress. Reps. Celeste Maloy ...

Trump administration moves to review national monuments for mining, drilling possibilities The review could foreshadow changes to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in southern Utah.

One of the former administration’s most important repatriations was Chalcatzingo Monument 9, known as the “portal of the underworld”, a massive Olmec carving in stone restituted from the US ...

But the monument at Aguada Fénix is not entirely unprecedented. The structure certainly bears a few similarities to San Lorenzo and La Venta, Olmec sites in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The big ...

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.

From their stunning art and monumental stone heads to their significant influence on later civilizations, the Olmec legacy continues to shape Mexican culture and identity.