Relief of Osiris from the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt. According to Egyptian mythology, Egypt’s first king Osiris sailed around the world spreading knowledge, exactly like the Feathered Serpent ...

Mexican Cultural Center DuPage (MCCD) in coordination with Meztli Mexico and in partnership with the College of DuPage Public Art Project (COD) and the DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau (DCVB) ...

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 ...

The journalist and historian Paulo Antonio Paranaguá uses images from the turbulent continent to weave a history of the region, covering colonisation, slavery and dictatorship ...

An artefact named “passage to the underworld” was stolen from Mexico decades ago. It was placed in different museums and collections before finally making it back to its native place. It was broken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Originally stolen sometime in the early 20th century, a “portal to the underworld” depicting the Olmec jaguar god ...

To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how they perceived the passage of time Vanessa Crooks The latest stages of ...

In my book, Olmec Language and Literature, I explain how I deciphered the Olmec language. One of the most important documents used in my research was a Bi-lingual Mayan-Olmec text inscribed on a brick ...

Archaeologists in Mexico are racing to save 14 fragile rubber balls that date to roughly 3,200 to 3,600, made by the ancient Olmecs. Credit: INAH/María del Pilar Ponce Jiménez. – Public Domain.