Here, visitors will pass through the planet's core, exiting in southern Mexico, where the ancient Olmec civilization began, with a side trip to Los Angeles's Boyle Heights neighborhood.

The people of this mask are the Olmec, who ruled in what's now Mexico for around a thousand years, from 1400 to 400 BC. They've been called the mother culture - the 'cultura madre' - of Central ...

Long before more famous empires such as the Maya, a civilisation called the Olmec were building an impressive legacy. Commonly referred to by experts as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica ...

Tak’alik Ab’aj is an archaeological site located on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Its 1,700-year history spans a period that saw the transition from the Olmec civilization to the emergence of Early ...

Austin: University of Texas, 2000. Benson, Eizabeth P. and Beatrice de la Fuente. Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996. Berrin, Kathleen ed. Spirit of Ancient ...