Archaeologists have applauded recent excavations at an ancient settlement in southeastern Mexico that have yielded an array of artifacts from the Olmec civilization. However, controversy has flared ...

Road builders in southern Mexico discovered a script-covered block of stone among the rubble in a gravel quarry in 1999. A research team has now announced that the marks on the slab represent the ...

A stone block discovered in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico, contains the oldest writing in the New World, says an international team of archaeologists, including Stephen D. Houston of Brown ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Archaeologists digging near Mexico's Gulf coast have discovered the earliest known example of ...

A SMALL stone slab unearthed in a pile of debris in Mexico bears what appears to be the oldest example of writing in the Americas. The 2900-year-old inscriptions, attributed to Mexico's ancient Olmec ...

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 ...

A heap of debris taken from a quarry in Veracruz, Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what appears to be the oldest writing ever found in the Americas. Numerous symbols are carved across ...