A screenshot of an interactive map showing where all of the sculptures part of the Olmec Trails exhibit are located across DuPage County. Dawn Portner, Naperville’s special events coordinator ...

The exhibition seeks to shed light on the culture of the ancient Olmec civilization, said Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage.

The Olmec civilization developed around present-day Veracruz, Mexico, predating the Maya and Aztecs. Some scholars consider the Olmec society the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica.

The de Young Museum's "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," which opens today, gets a thrilling, uncluttered presentation. At the entrance to the exhibition hangs a photo mural of ...

Analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards from the ancient Olmec capital of San Lorenzo and other sites contradicts the notion among some researchers that the Olmec civilization was the “mother ...

More recently, scholars have held a "heated debate," Inomata says, over whether the ancient Maya cities sprang from the even older Olmec civilization of Mexico's Gulf Coast or started their ...

At the Americas Society, a Show Honoring Olmec Art Challenges Museum Protocol. An installation view of "Earth and Cosmos", featuring joint installation by Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza. ...

A carved monolith unearthed in Mexico may show that the Olmec civilization, one of the oldest in the Americas, was more widespread than thought or that another culture thrived alongside it 3,000 ...