Researchers unearthed several clay puppets from El Salvador which they hope will give them more insights into the fairly ...

A combination of historical preservation and safety concerns mean big fines for visitors who climb the ancient structures without permission.

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By Mary Richardson Sometimes you have to be hit over the head to be grateful. That happened to me when I was in Guatemala ...

A few presidents ago, I was quite upset about U.S. involvement in a war. I read in the local paper that the president had ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient Mesoamerican people.

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A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid are forcing ... to others found at the Mayan burial site Tak’alik Ab’aj in Guatemala. The researchers argue ...

Szymański was the lead on the project, having spent much of the last 15 years researching and writing papers on Mayan ... Guatemala. The 'creepy' figurines were discovered on top of an ancient ...

But because the archaeologists found no human remains onsite, the puppets' location at the tallest pyramid at the site ... similar to those found in Guatemala, suggests a shared tradition and ...

Their style and material, similar to those found in Guatemala, suggests a shared tradition and connections between the elites of the time, according to the archaeologists. Image 1 of 3 ...