The people of this mask are the Olmec, who ruled in what's now Mexico for around a thousand years, from 1400 to 400 BC. They've been called the mother culture - the 'cultura madre' - of Central ...

“Like many other looted antiquities, the Olmec Cave Mask was broken into several ... (INAH), a group within Mexico’s Ministry of Culture (which has been leading the restoration), says the ...