In the jungles of Copán we still find ancient Maya ruins overcome by nature and long forgotten. Stephens and Catherwood rediscovered this abandoned city and documented their experiences. Since ...

Ms Goodall said the mica was applied over the red paint of stucco masks on the corners of Copan's well-preserved Rosalila temple, found buried under another pyramid. "The Rosalila would have been one ...

A ballcourt in the heart of the vast Copan ruins where losing the game might mean death. (Doug Hansen/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS) A street vendor displays some of the colorful embroidered fabrics in ...

In the 1840s, English artist Frederick Catherwood and American travel writer John Lloyd Stephens captured the public’s imagination with a series of lushly illustrated books about the ruined cities of ...

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