Olmec Archive

LIDAR Discovers Giant Ancient Mesoamerican Calendar - Ancient Structures Were Aligned To The Stars

LIDAR Discovers Giant Ancient Mesoamerican Calendar – Structures Were Aligned To The Stars

AncientPages.com | January 10, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than

Prehistoric Puzzle: Three Gigantic Stone Heads Of Unknown Origin

AncientPages.com | March 17, 2020

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This intriguing image carved into a huge rock face must be very old but no one knows how old it is. The rock

Abaj Takalik enigmatic archaeological park in Guatemala

Civilizations

Mysterious Abaj Takalik Of Guatemala And Intriguing Relationship Between Olmec and Maya

AncientPages.com | March 16, 2020

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Abaj Takalik (also Tak'alik Ab'aj means 'standing stone' in the local K'iche' Maya language) has a pre-Columbian origin. The earliest known occupation at

Fascinating Tuxtla Statuette And Its Undeciphered Inscription – An Epi-Olmec Puzzle

Artifacts

Strange Tuxtla Statuette And Its Undeciphered Inscription – An Epi-Olmec Puzzle

AncientPages.com | March 14, 2018

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Tuxtla statuette is a strange ancient artifact left by a culture we still know very little about. Who was this bullet-shaped being with

Artifacts

Mysterious Figurine Of Seated Olmec Woman With Polished Hematite Disk

AncientPages.com | September 12, 2015

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium BC. This civilization is best known for creating