Hundreds of life-sized animal puppets will be performing in cities from Central Africa to the northern tip of Norway to raise awareness about climate change. Titled ‘The Herds’, this large-scale ...

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 ...

Archaeologists digging in Central America recently uncovered strange 2,400-year-old clay puppets in an unexpected place. The discoveries, which were found on top of El Salvador's San Isidro ...

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 ...

Szymański and Prejs theorize that the figurines were a form of puppets intentionally arranged at the site to represent a long-lost message. Given their striking location, they may have played a ...

“We contend that the figurines may have served a combination of purposes, being, effectively, marionettes or puppets in re-enactments of certain scenes,” the authors wrote in Antiquity.

Such ceramic figures have only been discovered in their original position twice. Five prehistoric clay puppets with revolving heads have been discovered in El Salvador, a country in central America.

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With a nod to Coldplay, the Marsh Family from Kent, England, are back, voicing their displeasure over the sordid spectacle we all witnessed on Friday. Written in solidarity with President Zelensky and ...

Using Puppets for Social and Emotional Learning is presented by a speech pathologist, Lucia Smith, from Pelican Talk Speech Therapy. Lucia has used puppets successfully in her work with children for ...