Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

A decline in the population density led to the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya civilisation, they concluded. This was ...

Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Descubiertas en 1570 por Diego García de Palacio, las ruinas de ... del siglo X. Copán is een van de belangrijkste archeologische gebieden van ...

Across southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, ancient Maya cities lie scattered like ... The nearby town of Copán Ruinas makes a great base, offering plenty of places to stay and ...

The Mayan civilization, which flourished in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala, has been excavated in large numbers even today. The great Mayan city of Copan, discovered in the jungles of western ...

Copan is an ancient Maya city, located in modern-day western Honduras. It was ruled by a dynasty of 16 kings between roughly A.D. 426 and 820. The city’s ancient name may have been Oxwitik and ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted ... in the northern Yucatán to Copán, about 400 miles to the south in modern-day Honduras. Each bore ceremonial centers ...

Catherwood struggled to copy the stelae and glyphs he uncovered at Copán because the form and style of Maya art was completely new to him. There was little light through the canopy to draw by. Compare ...

A University of New Mexico professor has spent portions of 32 years studying a site in Honduras that contains buried secrets of a Maya society ... the ancient city of Copán, where layer after ...

With the support of UNESCO, Honduras has begun a collaborative process to develop an updated management plan for the Maya Site of Copan, an important archaeological site inscribed on the World ...