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.

Languages: English. Archaeologists have discovered five "puppets"—believed to have been used to perform rituals—atop a pre-Columbian Central American pyramid structure. The ceramic figurines ...

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.

Archaeologists have discovered rare, 2,400-year-old puppets in El Salvador that may have been used in public rituals to perform well-known events that were "mythical or real." The finding suggests ...

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 ...

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 ...

For close-ups, some of the puppets like Lyra's daemon Pan, were sculpted heads. Other slinky-body styles of puppet were used for quadrupedal or bipedal animals. Some "flappy" puppets were used for ...

These origami-like puppets can come to life with one touch. They are called karakuri puppets and they have been used in Japan as early as the 17th Century. The technique is called Kirigami which ...

Puppets have always been major TV stars. They’re still a much-loved feature of children’s TV, with the musical puppet show Fraggle Rock having just been rebooted, 33 years after the last ...