After 60 years in the United States, more than 900 artifacts are being repatriated to Mexico in a major archeological win.

Mesoamerica: During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was coming to an end in Mexico. At the about same time, the Mayan civilization was rapidly expanding in Honduras ...

The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable clues into the development of the rest of the region.

The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable clues into the development of the rest of the region. Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic According to a ...

Its 1,700-year history spans a period that saw the transition from the Olmec civilization to the emergence of Early Mayan culture. Tak’alik Ab’aj had a primary role in this transition, in part because ...

and it was this Olmec mother culture that produced this unsettling face. So far this week the objects in this world history have taken me along the royal roads of the Persian Empire, into mythical ...