Ancient peoples left us huge amount secrets and traces of its greatness, so that scientists are still wondering: what and how could be created? Yes and Olmec heads, judging by their size, it was almost impossible to create them...
Gigantic stone head
with a gloomy expression, it weighs about 30 tons. It is located in the Central Square of the modern Mexican city of Santiago Tusla. This is one of the monuments left to us by the ancient Olmec civilization. The age of the head is more than two thousand years. The Olmecs are Mexico's oldest and most mysterious civilization. These peoples settled along the entire Gulf Coast around the third millennium BC.
The Coatzecoalcos was the main river of the Olmecs. Its name translated means “ Sanctuary of the Snake». 
According to legends, it was in this river that farewell to the ancient deity Quetzalcoatl took place. Quetzalcoatl or the Great Cuculan, as the Mayans called him, was a feathered serpent and mysterious person. This snake had a powerful physique, noble facial features, and, in general, a completely human appearance.
I wonder where he came from among the red-skinned and beardless Olmecs? According to legends, he came and left on the water. It was he who taught the Olmecs all crafts, moral principles and the calculation of time. Quetzalcoatl condemned sacrifices and was against violence. 
Few monuments remain from that Olmec era. The main ones include massive arrows, not typical of the Olmec race, and giant multi-ton heads carved from basalt monoliths.
These dark, mysterious and ponderous sculptures were found in Tres Zapotes, in one of the Olmec settlements from the period 500 BC. – 100 AD Scientists claim that this statue was made in the first century AD. The size of the head is amazing: two meters in height, five and a half meters in circumference, weight about ten tons. 
The gloomy expression on the face of this sculpture has clearly Negroid features. It is believed that blacks appeared in the area Gulf of Mexico much later. However, some paleontropologists believe that during the last ice age(15,000 BC) individual representatives of the Negroid race could migrate to this area.
A highly cultured people - the Olmecs - created a unique and original sculpture, which became the basis for the development of the art of sculpting and architecture throughout the territory Central America.
Heads made of stone
However, the study of the Olmec civilization began with the discovery in 1869 by H.M. Melgar in the state of Velacruz of an amazing stone head of an “African”, completely different from the previously discovered sculptures. Subsequently, archaeologists unearthed many more such heads that stood directly on the ground.
Scientists have found that the stone heads were created about 3,500 years ago. These are the oldest monuments of world sculpture. Their size is amazing: the largest is 3.4 m high and weighs 50 tons. The faces of the statues are round in shape with thick lips, almond-shaped eyes, round cheeks, and a flat and wide nose. The forehead is usually high, covered by a helmet, which is pulled down over the eyes and covers the ears. If the front of the head is carefully carved, the back of the head is either done carelessly or not processed at all. This gives reason to assume that the main thing for the masters was to depict the face. And the faces of the ancient Olmecs were embodied vividly and realistically, conveying the character and individual expressions of a person’s physiognomy.
The heads were not made on site. Having been cut down in the Las Tuxtlas mountain range, they were transported 60-125 km to the site of permanent exhibition. The Olmecs figured out how to move giant sculptures: they cut out a single piece of basalt in a quarry, put it on runners, delivered it to the river and floated the stone block along it on rafts to its destination. And there the master gave the head unique features.
Stella
Other Olmec monuments were also created, among which the steles stand out. They can be found throughout the territories inhabited by ancient people. They decorated giant altars, the largest of which was 4 m long, 1.5 m wide and 1.8 m high.
Near the base of one of the hills in Tres Zapotes, the largest, but badly damaged stele was found. In its center is carved in full height a human figure, with 2 more smaller figures cut out on the right and left sides. One of the people is holding a severed human head. An unusual deity, depicted in the form of a mask, hangs over the heroes of the scene.
All these heads are carved from solid blocks of basalt. The smallest have a height of 1.5 m, the largest is about 3.5 m. Most Olmec heads are about 2 m. Accordingly, the weight of these huge sculptures ranges from 10 to 35 tons!
When you look at the heads, many questions immediately arise to which you would like to get a clear answer from the all-knowing science. The facial features of each of the 17 giant heads are not individual and they all have one common feature– characteristic negroid features. Where did blacks come from in pre-Columbian America if, according to official science, there could have been no contacts between Africa and America before Columbus? And the Olmecs themselves did not look like blacks at all, as follows from numerous other figurines and figurines. And only these 17 heads are endowed with Negroid features.
With the help of what tools, in the absence of metal (again, according to the official version), basalt, one of the strongest stones, from which the heads are made, was processed with such precision and detail? Is it really a different stone?
How were multi-ton blocks, some weighing up to 35 tons, transported to the processing site 90 km from the place of their extraction through the jungle over rough terrain? Despite the fact that (according to the same version) the Olmecs did not know wheels (by the way, it has already been proven that they knew).
Why make them so big? After all, the Olmecs have many other sculptures, including heads of quite normal size and quite American (Indian) appearance. And only these 17 black faces are an exception. Why are they so honored? Or is it life-size?
Now let's try to answer these questions...
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The Olmec civilization is considered the first, “mother” civilization of Mexico. Like all other first civilizations, it appeared immediately and in a “ready-made form”: with developed hieroglyphic writing, an accurate calendar, canonized art, and developed architecture. According to the ideas of modern researchers, the Olmec civilization arose around the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. and lasted for about a thousand years. The main centers of this culture were located in the coastal zone of the Gulf of Mexico in the territory of the modern states of Tobasco and Veracruz. But the Olmec cultural influence can be traced throughout Central Mexico. Until now, nothing is known about the people who created this first Mexican civilization. The name "Olmec", meaning "people of rubber", was given by modern scientists. But where did this people come from, what language did they speak, where did they disappear centuries later - all these main questions remain unanswered after more than half a century of research into Olmec culture.
The Olmecs are Mexico's oldest and most mysterious civilization. These peoples settled along the entire Gulf Coast around the third millennium BC.
The Coatzecoalcos was the main river of the Olmecs. Its name translated means “ Sanctuary of the Snake».
According to legends, it was in this river that farewell to the ancient deity Quetzalcoatl took place. Quetzalcoatl, or the Great Cuculan, as the Mayans called him, was a feathered serpent and a mysterious figure. This snake had a powerful physique, noble facial features, and, in general, a completely human appearance.
I wonder where he came from among the red-skinned and beardless Olmecs? According to legends, he came and left on the water. It was he who taught the Olmecs all crafts, moral principles and the calculation of time. Quetzalcoatl condemned sacrifices and was against violence.
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The largest Olmec monuments are San Lorenzo, La Venta and Tres Zapotes. These were real urban centers, the first in Mexico. They included large ceremonial complexes with earthen pyramids, an extensive system of irrigation canals, city blocks and numerous necropolises.
The Olmecs achieved real perfection in stone processing, including very hard rocks. Olmec jade products are rightfully considered masterpieces of ancient American art. Olmec monumental sculpture included multi-ton altars made of granite and basalt, carved steles, and human-sized sculptures. But one of the most remarkable and mysterious features This civilization consists of huge stone heads.
The first such head was found back in 1862 in La Venta. To date, 17 such giant human heads have been discovered, ten of them come from San Loresno, four from La Venta, and the rest from two more monuments of Olmec culture. All these heads are carved from solid blocks of basalt. The smallest are 1.5 m high, the largest head, found at the Rancho La Cobata monument, reaches 3.4 m in height. The average height of most Olmec heads is about 2 m. Accordingly, the weight of these huge sculptures ranges from 10 to 35 tons!
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All heads are made in the same stylistic manner, but it is obvious that each of them is a portrait of a specific person. Each head is topped with a headdress that most closely resembles an American football player's helmet. But all hats are individual, there is not a single repetition. All heads have carefully detailed ears with decorations in the form of large earrings or ear inserts. Ear piercing was a typical tradition for all ancient cultures of Mexico. One of the heads, the largest from Rancho La Cobata, depicts a man with his eyes closed; all the other sixteen heads have their eyes wide open. Those. each such sculpture was supposed to depict a specific person with a characteristic set of individual traits. It can be said that Olmec heads are images of specific people. But despite the individuality of the features, everything giant heads The Olmecs are united by one common and mysterious feature.
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The portraits of the people depicted in these sculptures have pronounced Negroid features: a wide, flattened nose with large nostrils, plump lips and big eyes. Such features do not fit in with the basic anthropological type ancient population of Mexico. Olmec art, whether sculpture, relief or small plastic art, in most cases reflects the typical Indian appearance characteristic of the American race. But not on giant heads. Such Negroid features were noted by the first researchers from the very beginning. This led to the emergence of various hypotheses: from assumptions about the migration of people from Africa to claims that such a racial type was characteristic of the oldest inhabitants Southeast Asia, who were part of the first settlers to America. However, this problem was quickly put to rest by representatives of official science. It was too inconvenient to consider that there could have been any contacts between America and Africa at the very dawn of civilization. Official theory didn't mean them.
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And if so, then the Olmec heads are images of local rulers, after whose death such original memorial monuments were made. But Olmec heads are truly a unique phenomenon for ancient America. In the Olmec culture itself there are similar analogies, i.e. sculpted human heads. But unlike the 17 “Negro” heads, they depict portraits of people of a typical American race, are smaller in size and are made in accordance with a completely different pictorial canon. There is nothing like this in other cultures of ancient Mexico. In addition, one can ask a simple question: if these are images of local rulers, then why are there so few of them, if we speak in relation to thousand years of history Olmec civilization?
And how should we deal with the problem of Negroid traits? No matter what the ruling powers say historical science theories, in addition to them there are also facts. The Anthropological Museum of the city of Jalapa (Veracruz state) houses an Olmec vessel in the form of a sitting elephant.
It is considered proven that elephants in America disappeared with the end of the last glaciation, i.e. approximately 12 thousand years ago. But the Olmec knew the elephant, so much so that it was even depicted in figured ceramics. Either elephants still lived in the Olmec era, which contradicts paleozoological data, or Olmec craftsmen were familiar with African elephants, which contradicts modern historical views. But the fact remains that you can, if not touch it with your hands, then see it with your own eyes in a museum. Unfortunately, academic science diligently avoids such awkward “trifles.” In addition, in the last century, in different areas of Mexico, at monuments with traces of the influence of the Olmec civilization (Monte Alban, Tlatilco), burials were discovered, the skeletons of which anthropologists identified as belonging to the Negroid race.
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Giant Olmec heads pose many paradoxical questions to researchers. One of the heads from San Lorenzo has an internal tube connecting the sculpture's ear and mouth. How could such a complex internal channel be made in a monolithic basalt block 2.7 m high using primitive (not even metal) tools? Geologists who studied the Olmec heads determined that the basalt from which the heads at La Venta were made came from quarries in the Tuxtla Mountains, the distance to which, measured in a straight line, is 90 kilometers. How did the ancient Indians, who did not even know wheels, transport monolithic stone blocks weighing 10-20 tons over rough terrain? American archaeologists believe that the Olmecs could have used reed rafts, which, along with cargo, were floated down the river into the Gulf of Mexico, and along the shore they delivered basalt blocks to their urban centers. But the distance from the Tuxtla quarries to the nearest river is about 40 km, and it is a dense swampy jungle.
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In some myths about the creation of the world, which have survived to this day from various Mexican peoples, the emergence of the first cities is associated with newcomers from the north. According to one version, they sailed by boat from the north and landed at the Panuco River, then walked along the coast to Potonchan at the mouth of Jalisco (the ancient Olmec center of La Venta is located in this area). Here the aliens exterminated the local giants and founded the first of those mentioned in legends. cultural center Tamoanchan.
According to another myth, seven tribes came from the north to the Mexican Highlands. Two peoples already lived here - the Chichimecs and the Giants. Moreover, the giants inhabited the lands east of modern Mexico City - the regions of Puebla and Cholula. Both peoples led a barbaric lifestyle, obtained food by hunting and ate raw meat. The newcomers from the north drove out the Chichemeks and destroyed the giants. Thus, according to the mythology of a number of Mexican peoples, giants were the predecessors of those who created the first civilizations in these territories. But they could not resist the aliens and were destroyed. By the way, a similar situation took place in the Middle East and it is described in sufficient detail in the Old Testament.
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Mentions of a race of ancient giants that preceded historical peoples are found in many Mexican myths. So the Aztecs believed that the earth was inhabited by giants in the era of the First Sun. They called the ancient giants “kiname” or “kinametine”. The Spanish chronicler Bernardo de Sahagún identified these ancient giants with the Toltecs and believed that it was they who erected the giant pyramids in Teotehuacan and Cholula.
Bernal Diaz, a member of the Cortez expedition, wrote in his book “The Conquest of New Spain” that after the conquistadors gained a foothold in the city of Tlaxcala (east of Mexico City, Puebla region), local Indians told them that in very ancient times people had settled in this area enormous height and strength. But since they had bad character and bad customs, the Indians exterminated them. To confirm their words, the inhabitants of Tlaxcala showed the Spaniards a bone ancient giant. Diaz writes that it was a femur and its length was equal to the height of Diaz himself. Those. the height of these giants was more than three times the height of an ordinary person.
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In the book “The Conquest of New Spain,” he describes how the Indians told them that in ancient times people of enormous stature settled in these places, but the Indians did not agree with their characters and killed everyone. Quote from the book:
« They also reported that before their arrival the country was inhabited by giants, rude and wild, who later either died out or were destroyed. As proof, they showed the femur of such a giant. Indeed, she was the size of my full height, and I’m not small. And there were a fair number of such bones; we were amazed and horrified at such a breed of past times and decided to send samples to His Majesty in Spain».
Russian translation of the book: http://www.gramotey....140358220925600
The quote is taken from the chapter “Friendship with Tlaxcala.”
There was no point in lying to the author, the matters being discussed were much more important than long-extinct and non-dangerous giants, and this was said and shown by the Indian casually, as a matter of course. And the book is about something completely different. And if a modern TV channel can still be suspected of falsifying facts in order to increase ratings, then a person who publicly promised 500 years ago to send “non-existent” giant human bones king, one can only suspect him of idiocy. Which is very difficult to do after reading his book.
Traces of giants have been found in this area and in the manuscripts of the Aztecs (Aztec codices), who later lived in the same places, in the form of drawings, and in many Mexican myths.
Drawing from an Aztec manuscript. Judging by how many people are pulling one big man, it is also very heavy. Maybe it's his head etched in stone?
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In addition, from different sources it is clear that the ancient giants inhabited a certain area, namely the eastern part of central Mexico up to the Gulf Coast. It is quite reasonable to assume that the giant heads of the Olmecs symbolized victory over the race of giants and the victors erected these monuments in the centers of their cities in order to perpetuate the memory of their defeated predecessors. On the other hand, how can such an assumption be reconciled with the fact that all the giant Olmec heads have individual facial features?
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Maybe those researchers are right who believe that the giant heads were portraits of rulers? But the study of paradoxical phenomena is always complicated by the fact that such historical phenomena rarely fit into the system of conventional logic. That's why they are paradoxical. Moreover, myths, like any historical source are subject to influences dictated by the current political situation. Mexican myths were recorded by Spanish chroniclers in the 16th century. Information about events that happened tens of centuries before this time could have been transformed several times. The image of giants could be distorted to please the victors. Why not assume that giants were rulers of the Olmec cities for a time? And why not also assume that this ancient people giants belonged to the Negroid race?
The ancient Ossetian epic “Tales of the Narts” is entirely imbued with the theme of the struggle of the Narts with the giants. They were called uaigi. But, what is most interesting, they were called black uaigs. And although the epic does not mention the skin color of the Caucasian giants anywhere, the adjective “black”, in relation to the Uaigs, is used in the epic as a qualitative, and not as a figurative concept. Of course, such a comparison of facts relating to ancient history peoples so distant from each other may seem too bold. But our knowledge about distant eras is too scarce.
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It remains only to remember the great poet A.S. Pushkin, who used the rich heritage of Russian folklore in his work. In "Ruslan and Lyudmila" main character encounters the head of a giant standing alone in an open field and defeats it. The same theme of defeating ancient giants and the same image of a giant head. And such a coincidence cannot be a mere coincidence.
Graham Hancock in the book “Traces of the Gods” he writes: “The most amazing thing was that Tres Zapotes was not a Mayan city at all. It was completely, exclusively, undeniably Olmec. This meant that it was the Olmecs, and not the Mayans, who invented the calendar, that it was the Olmec culture, and not the Mayans, that was the “progenitor” of the cultures of Central America... Olmec much older than Mayan. They were a skillful, civilized, technically advanced people, and it was they who invented the dot and dash calendar, in which the starting point is a mysterious date August 13, 3114 BC."
Most Olmec stone heads depict a man with Negroid facial features. But 2000 years ago there were no black Africans in the New World; the first of them appeared much later than the Conquest, when the slave trade began. However, there is solid evidence from paleoanthropologists that one of the migrations to the territory of the American continent during the last ice age actually included people of the Negroid race. This migration took place around 15 thousand years BC
In San Lorenzo, the Olmecs built an artificial hill more than 30 meters, as part of a huge structure 1200 meters long and 600 meters wide. Archaeologist Michael Coe During excavations in 1966, he made a number of finds, including over twenty artificial reservoirs connected by a very complex network of gutters lined with basalt. Part of this network was built into the watershed. When this place was excavated, water again began to flow from there in heavy rains, as it had done for more than three thousand years. The main drainage line ran from east to west. Three auxiliary lines were cut into it, and the connections were made very competently from a technical point of view. Having carefully examined the system, archaeologists were forced to admit that they could not understand the purpose of this complex system of water conduits and other hydraulic structures.
Olmec still remain a mystery to archaeologists. No traces of Olmec evolution could be found, as if this people appeared out of nowhere. Nothing is known about the social organization, rituals and belief system of the Olmecs, what language they spoke, what ethnic group they belonged, not a single Olmec skeleton has survived.
The Mayans inherited their calendar from the Olmecs, who used it a thousand years before the Mayans. But where did the Olmecs get it from? What level of technical and scientific development civilization to develop such a calendar?
Olmec heads are already known to everyone today. There is probably not a single tourist who, having arrived in Mexico, would not want to admire them. IN academia Olmec heads prefer to pass by, giving them a simple explanation and not going into small “insignificant” details.
Why do the Olmec heads so confuse and even frighten the “bright heads” of humanity?
The first such head was found in La Venta in 1862. Today, 17 similar heads are known in different places in Mexico. Absolutely all of them are made from a single block of basalt. They all different sizes and depict different people. The largest such head is 3.4 meters in height, and the smallest is 1.5 meters, but on average their height is approximately 2 meters. Weight balances from 10 to 35 tons.
All heads have the same style of execution and, as studies have shown, are made of basalt, which is located as much as 90 kilometers from the location of the heads. How the Olmecs, who didn’t even know wheels, could drag a block weighing ten tons remains a mystery. True, the official version says that they melted these heads down the river on reed rafts. There is only one “minor detail” - the nearest river is 40 kilometers away through swamps and impenetrable jungle.
There is one more point. The Olmecs had the most primitive tools, not even iron ones. It doesn't fit in any way with the ear to head inner tube in one of the heads. In such hard monolithic rock as basalt, and even two meters high, it was simply not possible to do this with these tools.
But scientists experience the greatest confusion with the fact that the heads are clearly of the Negroid race. And this is in Mexico, where, in theory, there was no connection with Africa during this period. Official science stated that these are apparently sculptures of the heads of Olmec rulers. They were made after the death of the leaders. Something like a monument. Only bad luck - the Olmecs had other images of human heads with clearly American features. However, this “trifle” is cleverly avoided and they prefer not to discuss it.
True, there is another problem here. A vessel in the shape of an elephant was found among the Olmec culture!!! But the elephants in Mexico all died out during the Ice Age. Where did the Olmecs know these animals???
The ancient peoples left us many such works that scientists are still scratching their heads: how could they be created? - after all, this is physically impossible! The famous Olmec heads, despite their size, were relatively easy to create - physically - and almost impossible - for another reason...
A giant stone head with a rather gloomy expression and weighing more than 30 tons adorns the Central Square of the modern Mexican city of Santiago Tusla. This is a monument to the ancient Olmec civilization. This head is more than two thousand years old. Olmec - the oldest and most mysterious civilization Mexico. They lived along the Gulf Coast around the third millennium BC.
The main river of the Olmecs is Coatzecoalcos, which means “Sanctuary of the Snake”. Ancient legends claim that in distant times It was on this river that the farewell of the main deity took place Ancient Mexico- Quetzalcoatl - with the inhabitants of the country, to whom he promised to return.
Quetzalcoatl, or, as the Mayan tribes called him, the Great Cuculan, is a feathered serpent with a mysterious personality: he is a powerfully built man of the white race with noble features, bearded, dressed in a long cloak or a light, belted shirt.
Where did he come from among the beardless, red-skinned Olmecs? Tradition says that he came and left on the water. He taught the Olmecs crafts, timekeeping, and moral principles. Quetzalcoatl was against violence and condemned the sacrifices intensively practiced by the Olmecs. Before his appearance, the Olmec Altar of the Infant Sacrifice did not dry out from the blood of children sacrificed to the Sun God in order to delay the end of the world and prevent the death of the Universe.
Few monuments remain from the Olmec era. Only massive arrows depicting people belonging to races not typical for the majority of the inhabitants of this area, and multi-ton giant heads (16 in total), carved from basalt monoliths.
Gloomy, ponderous, mysterious sculptures. One of the heads was unearthed from Tres Zapotes, an Olmec settlement dating back to 500 BC. - 100 AD This statue dates back to the 1st century AD. Its dimensions: 2 meters in height, 5.5 meters in circumference, weight about 10 tons. A gloomy facial expression with clearly large Negroid features. Blacks were believed to have appeared in the Gulf of Mexico region much later, when light hand The slave trade was in full swing for the conquistadors. However, paleontropologists suggest that during the last ice age (15,000 BC), representatives of the Negroid race could migrate in small numbers to these areas.