Image shows Burial 36-2000, one of the largest and most significant burials uncovered outside the Acropolis in Copán’s 130-year history of archaeological investigation. The burial contains the ...

A man’s skeleton found atop a stone slab at Copán, which was the capital of an ancient Maya state, contains clues to a colonial expansion that occurred more than 1,000 years before Spanish explorers ...

“Picture a square bed sheet,” my informant instructed. “The four corners are the four cardinal points. Now picture four heavenly creatures holding each of the corners: The creature on the northern ...

Contributions and controversies in the archaeology and history of Copán / William L. Fash and Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle -- Political ecology, political economy, and the culture history of resource ...