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

Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an archaeological site in El Salvador. The five carved ...

In a significant breakthrough at the San Isidro archaeological site in El Salvador, archaeologists uncovered five ancient ...

A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid are forcing archaeologists to rethink the country’s historical connection with its Central American neighbors. Three of ...

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

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC. The ritualistic-looking item was ...

The figures belong to a style known as “Bolinas figures,” which have been previously found at various archaeological sites, though mostly fragmented or discarded in ancient refuse piles ... as incised ...

Multiple clay puppets with creepy open-mouthed expressions were discovered at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador. The figurines are around 2,400 years old.

In the 1940s, large-scale excavations in Guatemala City began uncovered scores of clay figurines ... they had always been found in fragments at ancient trash heaps. That perception began to ...

“The size of the larger figurines, along with the ability to move their heads, inevitably provokes an analogy with modern toy dolls. Clay is not ... of the creators of ancient settlements ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...