Hundreds of people will take to the streets for the opening weekend of a huge, 18-day festival this summer. Manchester International Festival (MIF) will see a parade of life-size puppet animals ...

Last weekend, the United States vacated the post of leader of the free world. Supporters of democracy the world over watching in disbelief as the US President and Vice-President berated, belittled ...

The puppet-master behind a UK-based spy ring working for Putin plotted to use an army of mercenaries to control the flow of migrants into Europe. Fugitive Russian agent Jan Marsalek, 45, has been ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an archaeological site in El Salvador. The five carved figurines are about 2,400 years old, and they may help shed new light on an ...

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.

This was a kiln-er find. Puppets with remarkable facial features believed to date back some 2,400 years have been discovered at the top of an ancient pyramid in the jungle of El Salvador.

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.

At the top of the remains of a large pyramid in Central America, archaeologists discovered ancient puppets with faces that grin or scowl depending on the viewer’s perspective — a finding that ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...