Ancient Toys Found Inside 2,000-Year-Old Tombs of Children, Believed to Be Gifts for the Deceased Archaeologists uncovered toys buried alongside children in ancient tombs that date back over 2,000 ...

Eighty ancient clay figures have been discovered by archaeologists at The Universities ... between 1400 and 800 years old, unearthed from a series of mysterious mounds in a remote region of Northern ...

This story ran in the April 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three ...

Crumbling clay figures, worn with time and neglect ... “They are reborn in their wear and tear and old age, their collapses and fractures recreate them,” López said. “In them we can glimpse the primal ...

The project was an idea the 47-year-old came up with many years earlier. He started the planning and the creation of the clay figures about three years ago before setting it up in his garden from ...