Corn also became a symbol of status and importance across cultures. "We start to see, in the Olmec culture, that those who we ...

But really what they're evoking is their head as an ear of corn. And so the Olmec really were truly the people of maize." Sadly there are only a few Olmec inscriptions - or glyphs - now surviving ...

Germany has returned two 3,000-year-old pre-Hispanic wooden statues from the Olmec civilisation to the Mexican authorities. Mexico says the artefacts were taken illegally from an Olmec ...