Ceren, Mayan Village, El Salvador

It's been the Pompeii of the Americas - an ancient Mayan village perfectly preserved in ash from a volcanic eruption.The village, Ceren, was first discovered in modern day El Salvador four decades ago completely by accident when it uncovered by a bulldozer forty years ago. Dr Payson Sheets, an archeologist from the University of Boulder Colorado, who has been sifting through the buried ruins ever since tells Nine to Noon how the thousands of artefacts he's found have shed new light on the daily lives of the ordinary people who made up the mysterious Mayan civilisation.

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