Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site

World Heritage

El Salvador

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Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic agricultural community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried by a volcanic eruption in the Laguna crater around 600 AD. Because the remains are so well preserved, they offer insights into the daily lives of the Mesoamerican people who worked the land at the time.

# Archaeological sites

# Central American people