The Ball Court

Mayan Ruins at Copan

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December 8th 2007
The Mayan Ruins at Copan were quite impressive, not as large as Tikal in Guatemala, and Copan has very intricate stone carvings. The Story Staircase of Copan supposedly tells the history of the community through the carvings on the stairs. Unfortunately the staircase had fallen apart over the centuries and was reassembled in the 1930s without consideration for the proper sequence of the hierogly ... read more

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Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a ha... ... read more