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 ...

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 ...

Whoever named Copan Ruinas had it easy. A town springs up by mysterious Maya ruins in Honduras' Copan Valley? Presto, just link the location to its main attraction. Visitors often presume this ...

A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copán, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the d ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor and artist Raoul de la Sota will take visitors on a study program from March 22 to April 6 to the ancient Mayan cities of Tikal in Guatemala and Copan in Honduras. The tour will concentrate ...