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

Two archaeologists discovered the ceramic figurines—possibly used as puppets—at the top of a pyramid, and three of them have ...

"One of the most striking features of the puppets is their dramatic facial expressions," said archaeologist Jan Szymański.

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

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

A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid are forcing archaeologists to rethink the ...

A remarkable collection of five pre-Hispanic clay puppets with rotating heads has been discovered in El Salvador. Aside from ...

Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious set of 2,400-year-old puppets with ‘dramatic facial expressions’ atop a pyramid in El Salvador.

Archaeologists have found five 2,400-year-old puppets, designed to shift emotions depending on the viewing angle, on a ...