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 ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has announced today the acquisition of one of the most renowned sculptures from ancient Mesoamerica, an unqualified icon of Olmec civilization. Standing Figure Holding a ...

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 Olmec heads are arriving. The “Olmec Origins” culturally decorated heads exhibit will be opening at the Gail Borden Public Library at 270 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin. These heads were located at ...

In the late 1850s, a farmer in southern Mexico was clearing a plot of forested land to cultivate corn when he stumbled upon a large object partially buried in the ground. At first, he thought it was ...

The Kimbell Art Museum announced Wednesday that it has acquired a statuette carved in jade from ancient Mesoamerica. “Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby,” circa 900– 00 B.C., was acquired in ...

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 ...

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced Wednesday it has acquired a jade Olmec sculpture, one of the most renowned of ancient Mesoamerica. Standing Figure Holding a ...