These artists make miniature figurines of celebrities. Taocixiansheng is a ceramics company in China. The artists form the head out of polymer clay. They'll add smaller pieces of clay to make the ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian El Salvador that they dated to around 400 B.C. The level of realism, both in the facial features and movement, ...

There’s never been a better time to transform yourself into an action figure because ChatGPT makes it so easy. Thanks to the ...

This story ran in the April 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three ...