A chance discovery in Veracruz uncovers the first Olmec colossal head and opens the mystery of Mesoamerica’s earliest powerful societies. From San Lorenzo and La Venta to lidar-revealed mega-centers ...

For more than 100 years, no one knew exactly where it was, only that it was gone. Somewhere along the way, a massive stone carving created nearly 2,700 years ago by the Olmecs quietly slipped out of ...

The long-standing mystery surrounding an ancient artifact often referred to as a “portal to the underworld” has been resolved, archeologists say. The Olmec Cave Mask, a significant relic from the ...