In Copán – a major transit point for cocaine – drug trafficking groups collaborate with local authorities to smuggle narcotics over the department’s porous western border with Guatemala. Despite a ...

Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most important sites of the Mayan civilization, were not excavated until the 19th century. The ruined citadel and imposing ...

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 ...

When John [Lloyd] Stephens came here about 160 years ago, he speculated that the inscriptions contained royal history, that it was history written in stone. It turned out he was absolutely right. He ...

The recent murder of Hugo Pinto Aguilar, a former congressman for Honduras’ ruling National Party, suggests a shift in criminal power in one of the country’s prized drug trafficking enclaves. Pinto ...

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 ...

In its heyday from about A.D. 300 to 900, the Maya civilization boasted hundreds of cities across a vast swath of Central America. Now archeological sites, these once-flourishing cities extended from ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

The Western Honduras PBCR was established through a collaboration of academic institutions and the Honduras Ministry of Health for collection of incident cancer data from public and private health ...

Examples of head-scratchingly impressive building material can be found throughout the ancient world, and Maya lime plaster ranks high among them. Scientists from the University of Granada in Spain ...

John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood's first journey together was in 1839-1840. Departing New York on 3 October 1839, the men reached Belize on 30 October 1939. Stephens had planned to fulfull ...

The overgrown jungle of Copán is the backdrop for a formidable stone statue erected in the early eighth century. Standing more than three meters high, the figure on the stele wears a net skirt, beaded ...