The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most popular among the Mesoamerican civilizations, but the Olmecs came first.

“In 300 BC, when they reached their first peak, they already had quite complex urban planning, and had already solved — in some way — their whole subsistence system to sustain large numbers of people.

(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 ...

For the first time in Canada, visitors to Pointe-à-Callière have the rare opportunity to explore the Olmec civilization and its unique heritage as one of the earliest civilizations and founding people ...

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 ...