In 1839, John Lloyd Stevens and Frederick Catherwood pushed through war, bandits, and malaria to reach Copan and beyond, producing the drawings and travel accounts that revealed the sophistication of ...

The early-morning sun burnishes the stone temples in Copan to a golden sheen, while on their facades, serpents writhe, jaguars crouch, birds preen and gods grimace in a pantomime that has been going ...

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

When John [Lloyd] Stephens came here about 160 years ago, he speculated that the inscriptions contained royal history, that it was history written in stone. It turned out he was absolutely right. He ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Copan is an ancient Maya city, located in modern-day western Honduras. It was ruled by a dynasty ...

If the soaring ruins at Tikal conjure a civilization at the peak of its ceremonial hubris -- with temples that dwarf the very jungle -- the Copan ruins recall something more like a quiet city by the ...

Tourists visit the Maya site of Copan in Honduras, April 1, 2023. The city of Copan, with its temples, squares, terraces and other characteristics, is an excellent representation of Classic Mayan ...

2003 Report on the Joint UNESCO-ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Maya Site of Copan, 18-24 February 2003 1999 Report on the ICOMOS Expert Mission to Central America following the passage of ...

2003: World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission; 2005: ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission; November 2011: World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission 2011 Report on the ...