and the city of Austin sure does feature several ginormous sculptures: a giant spider, giant couch potatoes, and a giant Olmec head, to name a few. There’s also The Cathedral of Junk ...

The artifact was a six-foot-by-five-foot Olmec Cave Mask ... authorities from the Antiquities Trafficking Unit based in New York City secured the masterpiece. Within a couple months, the long ...

The layout of the city, and its placing in an ordered landscape, typified not just Olmec, but most later Central American urban centres - like the Mayas and the Aztecs. All were a variation of the ...