When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient puppet-like figurines. Estimated to be around 2,400 years old, they oddly resemble modern ...

Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have ... at a site in El Salvador that was inhabited by an unknown ancient culture. Clay figurines unearthed in El Salvador may be puppets whose ...

A team of scientists has discovered that an ancient medicinal clay known as Lemnian earth ... the potential to support good ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC. The ritualistic-looking item was ...

Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an archaeological ... allowing himself to look over his people ...