Tag: Harvard World Media

  • Science & Tech

    Ancient knowledge

    It is 11 a.m. on a sticky tropical Saturday and Ian Graham is lying on his side in the dried grass before a 1,300-year-old stone building in the Maya city…

    5–8 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Archaeological bookends in Copán Valley

    COPÁN RUINAS, Honduras – A short drive from the main Maya ruins at Copán, a forested hillside holds a cluster of mounds that Peabody Museum archaeologists believe date from near the end of the great Maya civilization that once dominated the region.

    5–7 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard researchers head south to preserve ancient inscriptions

    Researchers from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are preparing to head into the Central American rain forest to begin an ambitious, multiyear project to scan and digitize fading Maya inscriptions and carvings.

    2–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Casts of monuments preserve fading treasures

    The carved stone monolith tells the story of Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat, the 16th and last ruler of the Maya city of Copan, one of the most important sites in Maya history.

    6–9 minutes