Tag: Yaxchilan

  • Arts & Culture

    Corpus team overcomes scanning snags

    A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela Monday (April 23). On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mexico: Ian Graham, explorer

    As an explorer, archaeologist, draftsman and photographer, Graham has devoted his life to making the ancient comprehensible.

    1 minute
  • 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.

    7 minutes