Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian El Salvador that they dated to around ...

Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies.

The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican people.

This discovery contradicts the prevailing notion about El Salvador’s cultural backwardness or isolation in the ancient times,” archaeologists said.

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

One of the most striking features of the puppets is their dramatic facial expression, which changes depending on the angle ...

At an archaeological site in El Salvador, researchers have unearthed a collection of ancient clay puppets. There were a total ...

Puppets with movable heads and ‘creepy ... the identities and ethnolinguistic affiliations of the creators of ancient settlements that predate the arrival of Europeans in the early 16th ...

“This finding is only the second such a group found in situ, and the first to feature a male figure,” Szymański explains. The ...

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the ...

“This gets worse the further back in time we look.” Unlike some modern dolls, these ancient puppets can’t talk—but they have a lot to say.