The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

Masks from the tombs at Calakmul were meant to ease the passage of the Snake elite into the next world. Royal visages made of green jade, more valuable than gold to the ancient Maya, evoked the ...

The mask's discovery adds to the intrigue ... Read More: Student Makes Miraculous Discovery of Ancient Mayan City ‘By Accident' ...

Farming was at the centre of ancient Maya life. But these people are also ... our amazing mosaic masks. Surely though, our roads will survive the longest. They run through the forests - connecting ...

A female attendant (above, far left) holds a mask that the king will wear during ... identity and communicating it to others. The ancient Maya, whose world was one of vivid cultural practices ...

Around 1200 years ago in a Maya city, the bones of several royal ... But it was the nosepiece and obsidian eye discs of a burial mask that made clear they were royal individuals.

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha ... including a striking green funerary mask, was covered with a scarlet powder, later confirmed to be cinnabar, the common term for mercuric sulfide.