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 ...

GETTING THERE: Other than a charter air strip, Copan doesn't have an airport (they are reportedly building one in the next few years). The closest international gateway is San Pedro Sula, Honduras ...

A new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) details how inadequate measures to combat drug trafficking helped exacerbate violence in the Guatemala-Honduras border region, a phenomenon that ...

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 ...

Among other fieldwork in Mexico and Guatemala, he is part of an ongoing project to record and preserve the monumental Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copán in Honduras.

IN March, 1928, the United States Government, acceding to requests from the Governments of Honduras and Guatemala to assist them in a renewed endeavor to settle their long-standing boundary dispute, ...

IT’S an incredible lost world, and the main reason people visit Copán in Honduras is to experience a part of one of the greatest Mayan civilisations that ever existed.

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

2000 years ago, kings of the ancient Mayas at Copán, Honduras, carved their history in rock.

Since the “coup d’état” of 2009, bad news has kept visitors away from Honduras. Chris Moss visits a new Mayan site near Copán that could help reverse the trend ...