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Mayan art in the museum. The ruins of a pre-Columbian Maya farming village, preserved under layers of volcanic ash Joya de Cerén El Salvador Central America. ..Fragmented anthropomorphic figure of a character in a sitting position. It has remains of a cream-colored slip and a type of belt or belt as well as applications of a necklace...Forty-two years after its discovery, the Joya de Cerén archaeological site in El Salvador is like a time capsule that holds finds and information of pre-Columbian life that developed in that place and that was preserved, as in Pompeii, by a volcanic eruption. (KEYSTONE/VWPICS/Sergi Reboredo )