Olmec-Influenced City Found in Mexico

January 26, 2007
Olmec-Influenced City Found in Mexico (AP)

A worker takes a break at the recently discovered Zazacatla archeological site near the town of Xochitepec, Mexico on Jan. 25, 2007. The site is a 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs that has yet been discovered, hundreds of miles away from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory, archaeologists said.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

(AP) -- A 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs, often referred to as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, has been discovered hundreds of miles away from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory, archaeologists said.



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