Germany has returned two 3,000-year-old pre-Hispanic wooden statues from the Olmec civilisation to the Mexican authorities. Mexico says the artefacts were taken illegally from an Olmec ...

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 ...

Quetzalcoatl was simply a peculiar snake-bird carving on a broken stone tablet found in Mexico—a carving, it turns out, from the Mesoamerican mother culture, the Olmecs. This appearance was the ...

Mexico is home to some truly amazing archeological ... Edwin Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center. The Olmec culture is considered in many ways to be the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica.