Many historical artists were very fanciful in their depictions of ancient buildings, but Catherwood was famously accurate, using a so-called ‘Camera Lucida’ to capture the exact details of the buildings and guide his drawings.
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Scientists in the PACUNAM project responsible for these recent discoveries believe that the ancient Maya population may have been as much as 10 times larger than experts previously imagined.
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It’s a useful reminder of the destruction still caused by looting of Maya archaeological sites in other, even more remote parts of the Guatemalan rainforest.
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When in need of some serious beach action, look no further than the Bay Islands (Islas de la Bahia), Honduras’ foremost tourist attraction.
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The Honduran capital – as noisy and busy as you’d expect a Central American city to be – is cradled in a bowl-shaped valley surrounded by pine-covered mountains and blessed with a cool, pleasant climate. It was named ‘silver hill’ (in the local dialect) when the Spanish established it as a mining settlement in 1578.
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