Its helmet is carved with animal figures, possibly eagles and jaguars, which were martial and authoritative symbols in Olmec culture. “The jaguar and eagle are the totemic animals from southern ...

The Olmec heads are among the largest non-architectural monuments ever discovered in Mexico, ranging between roughly 3.5 and 11.5 feet in height and weighing up to eight tons, with the largest of ...

Entering the special exhibition galleries at the de Young Museum, you encounter the colossal head of an Olmec ruler, his furrowed brow, almond eyes and fleshy lips exquisitely carved from a basalt ...

Starting around 1200 B.C., in southern Mexico, the Olmec created what most scholars agree was the first New World civilization, building large cities with monumental architecture, carving reliefs ...

Mexican seal is dated to 650 BC. Find suggests Olmec may have been area's 'mother' culture.

The Olmec were an early Mesoamerican civilization that existed during the Formative period (1800BCE–300CE). While they are often associated with producing colossal heads, they also engaged in ...

This quasi human-animal has distinct features, notably a V-shaped cleft, large, slanted, almond-shaped eyes, a broad nose with flared nostrils and a gaping mouth revealing a fangless gum line.

That ceremony left burned bits of plant, mingled with broken Olmec-style pottery, animal bones, shells, and a few human bones (which may or may not have come from a later cemetery) ...

The newly discovered tomb, which includes Olmec and Zoque traits, suggests this transition was well underway by 700 B.C. Some of the tomb's ceramic pots, for example, are identical to pots from La ...

Displays of artistic, one-of-a-kind cows popped up elsewhere in the world, but the elaborately decorated animals seemed especially fitting for Chicago, a place that long blamed Mrs. O’Leary’s ...

Olmec first came to the center on March 9, weighing in at 363 pounds. ... environment Endangered Animals Loggerhead Loggerhead Marinelife Center Loggerhead Park Loggerhead Sea Turtle Olmecs Reptiles.