US returns 2,500-year-old 'Earth Monster' stone sculpture to Mexico that dates to Olmec civilisation before Christian era
"It was like an open wound, not having this artefact," says Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard.Experts believe the sculpture was taken clandestinely in the 1960s from Chalcatzingo, a lesser-known ruin site south of Mexico City. / Photo: Twitter/@m_ebrard
Mexico has announced that a huge 2,500-year-old Olmec stone sculpture has been returned from the United States. 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 Mexico City.
The almost two-metre"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.
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