G. Morley '07, who for three years has been directing excavations at Chichea Itza, a city of the ancient Maya Indians in northeast Yucatan under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Washington.

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

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the ...