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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...
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 ...
The Kimbell Art Museum has announced today the acquisition of one of the most renowned sculptures from ancient Mesoamerica, an unqualified icon of Olmec civilization. Standing Figure Holding a ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection contains 20 color slides shot by Suzanne Aurelio in 1974. The slides depict Maya, Olmec, and Zapotec archaeological sites in ...
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Suzanne Aurelio photographs from Mexico, image #, NMAI.AC.396; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, ...
(THE CONVERSATION) – An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in ...
Karl Taube has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was ...