The show features real actors interacting with puppets in a world where the two live side by side. Gil Reyes, the director of ...

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The five figurines, dating back to 400 BC, suggest that Indigenous people in present-day El Salvador were more connected to Mesoamerican traditions than previously believed.

In the 1940s, large-scale excavations in Guatemala City began uncovered scores of clay figurines. They were an eclectic bunch. Facial features varied, hairstyles ranged from buns to curls to ...

A recent discovery at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador challenges the notion that pre-Columbian Salvadorans were isolated from more advanced civilizations. A pair of archaeologists has ...

(Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of ...

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 ...

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Archaeologists long believed that El Salvador was relatively isolated from other pre-Columbian cultures, which contributed to the region being historically understudied and overlooked. However, ...