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This handout image released by El Salvador's Presidency shows human skeletal remains partially exposed during the excavation of a pre-Hispanic burial estimated to date to 850 B.C. at an archaeological site in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador, on July 21, 20

Nearly 3,000-year-old human remains unearthed in El Salvador

The burial pit also contains a small Usulutan-style ceramic vessel shaped like a sea turtle, as well as remnants of cassava branches preserved beneath layers of volcanic ash deposited over different periods.

July 22, 2026