Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dee Bradley Baker will reprise his role as the voice of Olmec, the large animatronic talking head, on The CW’s reboot of “Legends ...

In the late 1850s, a farmer in southern Mexico was clearing a plot of forested land to cultivate corn when he stumbled upon a large object partially buried in the ground. At first, he thought it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do Frankenstein, a cardboard wine carton, and funky TV host Mark L. Walberg have in common? They all played a key role in the ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Ancient stone-like figures inspired by one of the world's earliest civilizations will be hitting the streets of downtown Houston. Students at Tanglewood Middle School have been ...

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 ...

Archeologists working on the gulf coast of Mexico have uncovered a 3,000-year-old stone tablet that bears the oldest writing in the Western Hemisphere and the first text unambiguously linked to the ...

Last Monday, March 11, artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone onto a blue Tesla Model 3. (all photos by and courtesy the artist) The car was donated by Colima 71, a ...

Similar ceremonial layouts connected ancient societies across Mexico’s Gulf Coast An unexpected architectural tradition linked many Olmec and Maya societies of Mesoamerica, an ancient cultural area ...

A free party will celebrate the appearance of nearly three dozen larger-than-life sculptures at the College of DuPage and around DuPage County. The Olmec Family Fiesta will be from 2 to 6 p.m. June 30 ...