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The ruins of a pre-Columbian Maya farming village, preserved under layers of volcanic ash Joya de Cerén El Salvador Central America. 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 )