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The Copán Ruins are located in the western part of Honduras, about 60 kilometers from the border with Guatemala. Copán was known as Xukpi to the Maya. It was the dominant Mayan city in the southern part of their territory. As one of the greatest treasures of art and architecture in the Americas, Copán is known for its beautiful temples, altars and stela. The stela are three to five meters tall and two to three meters around. Carved in extremely intricate high relief, they are portraits of the greatest rulers in the history of the city. Many are round on one side (the figure side) and flat on the other. The flat sides are laden with hieroglyphs which describe the power and politics of the dignitary depicted and the ideology of the times. Impressive in detail and humbling in size, these unique sculptural monuments make Copán shine among the ruin sites of the Maya and are invaluable to our understanding of this lost civilization. Copan, considered by many one of the most spectacular city's of the ancient Mayas civilization. It flourished during the 7th century AD and is representative today of what Athens was to the old world; the cradle of its civilization. Because of this and other reasons, UNESCO declared it a world heritage site in 1980. |
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| Author | Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada |
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