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 ...

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[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The curator recalls a similar gesture found in other jade figurines of the Olmec culture in Mexico, despite the long distance and gap of time between them.

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 ...