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 ...
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 ...
"Earth monster" weighs one ton and measures around six by five feet. (courtesy Consulate General of Mexico in New York) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...
Over 3,000 years ago, in the warm, fertile lands that are now Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, the great Maya civilization arose — its vast pyramid temples appearing to come out of nowhere. But new ...
Archeologists digging near Mexico’s Gulf Coast have discovered the earliest-known example of writing in Mesoamerica, pushing the date for the appearance of this cultural breakthrough back by at least ...
A team of international researchers reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya monument -- Aguada Fénix. That same team has now uncovered nearly 500 smaller ceremonial ...
Archeologists working on the gulf coast of Mexico have uncovered a 3,000-year-old stone tablet that bears the oldest writing in the Western Hemisphere and the first text unambiguously linked to the ...
After nearly a decade of litigation, Mexico recovered two Mesoamerican busts that had been missing since the 1980s. German authorities had found the wooden pieces in 2008, when they seized them from ...
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