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 ...

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 ...

Along with other children, I broke away from the tour group and wandered among the chambers inside the ancient Mayan edifices. I ran my hands along the walls, imagining that if I pressed a stone ...

Now, a second excavation, this one carried out in 2022 on top of the ancient ... the figurines were buried around 400 B.C.E., a period known as the Middle Preclassic when nearby Mayan culture ...

A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three may represent powerful people in an offshoot of the ancient Caral culture.

The small handmade Worry Dolls represent women dressed in traditional Guatemalan textiles, given to children to share secret worries with before bedtime. If you live in the shadow of an active ...

How he found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an ...

Now, five of those humanoid figurines from 2,400 years ago were ... and ethnolinguistic affiliations of the creators of ancient settlements that predate the arrival of Europeans in the early ...

W hen thinking about the ancient civilizations of Latin America, a few different locations often come to mind. The Aztecs in ...