Multiple clay puppets with creepy open-mouthed expressions were discovered at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador. The ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican people. Archaeologists uncovered five puppet-like figurines at ...

Five oddly expressive clay figurines, made on the edge of the Maya world about 2,400 years ago, were probably used as puppets in public rituals to commemorate mythical or real events.

Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian ... s cultural backwardness or isolation in ancient times,” Szymanski said. “It reveals the existence ...

Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by strings that passed through their necks Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an ...

A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid ... El Salvador’s cultural backwardness or isolation in ancient times,” University of Warsaw archaeologist ...

At the top of the remains of a large pyramid in Central America, archaeologists discovered ancient puppets with faces that grin or scowl depending on the viewer’s perspective — a finding that ...

This was a kiln-er find. Puppets with remarkable facial features believed to date back some 2,400 years have been discovered at the top of an ancient pyramid in the jungle of El Salvador.

A remarkable collection of five pre-Hispanic clay puppets with rotating heads has been discovered in El Salvador. Aside from the expert craftsmanship that went into making the items, the ancient ...