Olmec stone mask (made around 2,500 years ago) found in Mexico I'm holding a face in my hand, and it's very definitely a face, and not a head. It's made in polished green stone, and it's hollowed ...

The dark stone is flecked with white ... and my object, this Olmec face-mask, shows me a culture looking only at itself. "To go as far back as the Olmecs is to go as far back as the Egyptians ...