Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s but hadn’t tried mapping it — until recently.

Flores itself used to be the site of a Maya settlement known as Nojpetén (‘Great Island’), among the last independent states in the Americas to fall to the Spanish, at the end of the 17th ...

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