The people of this mask are the Olmec, who ruled in what's now Mexico for around a thousand years, from 1400 to 400 BC. They've been called the mother culture - the 'cultura madre' - of Central ...

What the farmworker had unearthed was a colossal Olmec head, one of the first clues to the existence of that ancient culture. Over the next century and a half, archaeologists would uncover many ...

Carved between 1400 and 400 BCE, these massive basalt sculptures represent the rulers of the Olmec civilisation, one of the earliest in Mesoamerica. Their detailed features and sheer sise ...