Gail Borden Public Library’s new Olmec Origins exhibit, featuring 33 Olmec sculptures, makes its Kane County debut Nov. 13 at the main library in downtown Elgin. The large, ornately decorated heads ...

The Gail Borden Library in Elgin hopes you’ll fall head over heels for its “Olmec Origins” exhibit, which opened Wednesday. The exhibit, which features 33 fiberglass reproductions of the mysterious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two carved sculptures of heads as seen in a museum. . When they were made: 1200 to 400 B.C. What they tell us about the past: Of ...

(Reuters) - Aerial remote-sensing of a large region of Mexico has revealed hundreds of ancient Mesoamerican ceremonial centers, including a large one at an important site for the ancient Olmec culture ...

COVINA – After resting in front of the Covina Police Department for the past two decades, a 7-ton colossal Olmec head is now lying in a pile of sand in the city’s maintenance yard, a move one ...

Fernando Ramirez allows himself to think big. He dreamed up an exhibition of alebrijes monumentales, larger-than-life, surreal creatures painted by Mexican artists at Cantigny Park in Wheaton. Ramirez ...

COVINA – Despite pleas and requests from several community members to move a giant Olmec head to the city library, the City Council on Tuesday let its original decision stand to relocate the relic to ...

It’s a story straight out of an Indiana Jones movie: A one-ton stone carving made by the Olmecs – one of the first civilizations to appear in Latin America – will be returned to Mexico from its ...

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 ...

Taking in the monumental stone sculptures at the de Young Museum during Thursday's VIP opening of "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," Protocol Director Matthew Goudeau remarked to Dede ...

Aerial remote-sensing of a large region of Mexico has revealed hundreds of ancient Mesoamerican ceremonial centers, including a large one at an important site for the ancient Olmec culture that is ...