Photos from the Copan Ruins:

Photos from the Copan Ruins:

The ballcourt. All the area in the photo that is now grass used to be a painted stucco floor. It literally covered the entire surface of the plain. Like many Mayan cities, Copan is built layer upon layer and there is an exposed cut that is about 15 – 18 meters tall.

The symbol of Copan. The bat is in heiroglyphs all over the city and has made it on to the 100 Lempira note.

A cool hunk of sculpture with a stork headdress off of a facad of one of the buildings.

Claudia and an ancestor.

More sculpture.

Heiroglyphic staircase with the story of the city. Only the first 9 rows are in meaningful order. The rest of the staircase collapsed and was rebuilt haphazardly.