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 ...

COPAN RUINAS, Honduras — When explorer John Lloyd Stephens began cutting through tangled roots and trees to the Mayan ruins of Copan in 1839, he didn’t fully understand what he was seeing. When we ...

As our United Airlines flight was descending into San Pedro Sula airport, the large square fields outside La Lima and the serpentine Ulua river brought back memories of so many landings and time here ...

K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heard about the end of the world in December 2012 as predicted by the Mayans? The members and editors of online travel consultants VirtualTourist (www.virtualtourist.com) have ...

The Mayan Apocalypse has been perpetuated in pop culture – in movies and through splashy tabloid headlines – even though it’s been widely debunked in archeological circles. In Mexico and Central ...

GETTING THERE: Other than a charter air strip, Copan doesn't have an airport (they are reportedly building one in the next few years). The closest international gateway is San Pedro Sula, Honduras, ...