Mexico says a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned by the United States.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and members of Mexico's Air Force pose for a photo with the packing of Olmec bas-relief carving Monument 9 of Chalcatzingo, at Denver International Airport, in Denver, Colorado, on May 19, 2023.Mexico announced Friday that a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned from the United States.
The almost six-foot-tall “Monster of the Earth” sculpture appears to represent the gaping maw of a monster that is big enough to swallow people, and may represent a symbolic entrance to the underworld. Experts say the sculpture is important because of the insights it provides on the cosmological vision of the Olmecs, considered a founding culture of Meso-America.
Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the sculpture was handed over at the Mexican consulate in Denver, Colorado, on Friday. Experts believe the sculpture was taken clandestinely in the 1960s from Chalcatzingo, a lesser-known ruin site south of
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