The Mayan Ruins in Copan, Honduras are amazing. They are also some of the best representations of the amazing and often ...

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 ...

Copan Ruins remains the quaint, small, quiet, and friendly place that is has always been, just a few miles from the Guatemalan border. You can walk around the entire town in less than an hour, with ...

Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement.

The ruins have been dated between 1,000 and 1,500 AD, and are thought to contain many valuable artefacts buried beneath thick foliage. ... on the border of Honduras and Nicaragua, ...

For nearly a century, explorers have searched for the White City in vain. But in 2015, a team of scientists that traveled deep into the jungle in Honduras' La Mosquitia region found ruins that ...

Underneath the thick, virgin rainforest cover in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, archaeologists have discovered ruins they think may be the lost city of Ciudad Blanca -- the "White City" full of ...

The news that an archaeological site of enormous significance has been uncovered in a suitably exotic corner of the planet always triggers a familiar and yet problematic scenario. On one hand ...