Ball Courts in Copan, Honduras
June 2, 2010 - West Point Cadet Bradley Potts captures video of the ball courts in Copan, Honduras.
Copan Ruinas Honduras // Mayan Ruins Private Tour
Copan Ruinas Honduras has amazing Mayan Ruins and is a World Heritage Site. They have some incredibly preserved temples, ball courts, tunnels and much more! This was a day spent exploring the site there, and I was given a private tour from an awesome guide named Cesar Flores.
He guided me through the entire site and explained the purpose for each building in this ancient Mayan city; along with the culture and their history there. I wish I could have put it all into this video, but to keep it time efficient, this is what it came to. I really recommend traveling to Copan Ruinas and visiting this Mayan World Heritage site. Words can’t express how special and amazing this area truly is!
Also, a BIG thank you to the staff at the Copan Ruinas Archeology Park for allowing me to fly my drone there, and for the amazing hospitality they showed me! Thank You for making this video possible, you guys rock! (no pun intended)
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Copán Ruinas - Mayan Site of Copán - Museum - Honduras
Ce site archéologique, qui fait partie du patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, est situé à Copán Ruinas, à seulement 12 km de la frontière du Guatemala.
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Une grande partie des sculptures apparaissant sur le site de Copán sont des répliques exactes afin d'éviter que les pièces originales soient érodées ou abimées.
Cependant, les stèles et sculptures originales sont conservées dans le Musée de la Sculpture Maya situé à proximité du site archéologique.
On accède à la pièce centrale de ce musée par un long tunnel dont l'entrée est représentée par la bouche d'un serpent.
Au bout de ce tunnel, quelle surprise de voir la réplique grandeur nature du temple de Rosalila. C'est un temple monumental orné de multiples sculptures multicolores.
Le musée comprend deux étages et on y retrouve une multitude de pièces qui sont remarquablement bien conservées.
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Copan Ruins in Copan of Honduras
The Copan Ruins are located in the western part of Honduras, about 60 kilometers from the border with Guatemala. Copan - known as Xukpi to the Maya - was the dominant Mayan city in the south of their territory. Its rich stone sculptures and intricate hieroglyphs make Copan a feature attraction along 'La Ruta Maya'.
The Principal Group of attractions in Copan consists of five basic areas of interest:
The Acropolis - Divided in two big plazas: the west court and east court. The west court houses temple 11 and temple 16 with altar Q set at its base. Temple 11 was built as a portal to the other world. Temple 16 sits in between the east and west court; it was built on top of a previous temple without damaging it. Altar Q depicts the 16 members of the Copan Dynasty.
The Tunnels - Archeologists have dug 4km of tunnels under the acropolis to view earlier stages of Copan civilization. Two of the tunnels are open to the public for an additional fee.
The Ball Court - The ball court is the second largest to be found in Central America.
The Hieroglyphic Stairway - The most famous of Copan's monuments, 63 steps and several thousand glyphs tell the history of the royal house of Copan and is the longest known text of ancient mayan civilization. Unfortunately, the steps have fallen out of place leaving the exact meaning undeciferable.
The Great Plaza - The immense plaza is famous for its stelae and altars that are found scattered around a well groomed lawn. In addition to the park, two museums contain more artifacts and information about the mayan civilization. One museum is housed at the archaeological site, the other in the town of Copan.
Copan Ruins, Honduras
Panorama of the Ball Court at the Mayan ruins of Copan
Copán Mayacomplex, Copán Ruinas, Honduras
Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. The city was located in the extreme southeast of the Mesoamerican cultural region, on the frontier with the Isthmo-Colombian cultural region, and was almost surrounded by non-Maya peoples.In this fertile valley now lies a city of about 3000, a small airport, and a winding road.
Copán was occupied for more than two thousand years, from the Early Preclassic period to the Postclassic. The city developed a distinctive sculptural style within the tradition of the lowland Maya, perhaps to emphasize the Maya ethnicity of the city's rulers.
The city has a historical record that spans the greater part of the Classic period and has been reconstructed in detail by archaeologists and epigraphers. Copán was a powerful city ruling a vast kingdom within the southern Maya area. The city suffered a major political disaster in AD 738 when Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, one of the greatest kings in Copán's dynastic history, was captured and executed by his former vassal, the king of Quiriguá. This unexpected defeat resulted in a 17-year hiatus at the city, during which time Copán may have been subject to Quiriguá in a reversal of fortunes.
A significant portion of the eastern side of the acropolis has been eroded away by the Copán River, although the river has since been diverted in order to protect the site from further damage.
The Copán site is known for a series of portrait stelae, most of which were placed along processional ways in the central plaza of the city and the adjoining acropolis, a large complex of overlapping step-pyramids, plazas, and palaces. The site has a large court for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame. In two parallel buildings framing a carefully dimensioned rectangle lies the court.
The site is divided into various groups, with the Main Group and the Cemetery Group in the site core linked by a sacbe to the Sepulturas Group to the northeast. Central Copán had a density of 1449 structures per square kilometer (3,750/sq mi), while in greater Copán as a whole this density fell to 143 per square kilometre (370/sq mi) over a surveyed area of 24.6 square kilometers (9.5 sq mi)
The Main Group represents the core of the ancient city and covers an area of 600 by 300 meters (1,970 ft × 980 ft). The main features are the Acropolis, which is a raised royal complex on the south side, and a group of smaller structures and linked plazas to the north, including the Hieroglyphic Stairway and the ballcourt. The Monument Plaza contains the greatest concentration of sculpted monuments at the site.
The Acropolis was the royal complex at the heart of Copán. It consists of two plazas that have been named the West Court and the East Court. They are both enclosed by elevated structures. Archaeologists have excavated extensive tunnels under the Acropolis, revealing how the royal complex at the heart of Copán developed over the centuries and uncovering several hieroglyphic texts that date back to the Early Classic and verify details of the early dynastic rulers of the city who were recorded on Altar Q hundreds of years later. The deepest of these tunnels have revealed that the first monumental structures underlying the Acropolis date archaeologically to the early 5th century AD, when K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' established the royal dynasty.
Crònicas. Ciudad Actual Copan Ruinas Parte 2
Balam presenta la Cultura Maya: Maya ball game
This video is part of the video-theatre project that was integrated in classes about Maya culture in the rural communities around Copán Ruinas (Honduras) by Arte Acción.
In this video, the children of grade 4 to 6 of the school of the community 'La Laguna' made a puppetplay about the traditional ball game the ancient Mayas used to play. In the video they compare it to a popular contemporary ball game: soccer.
The children in the intro and the children that are talking to Balam (the handpuppet) are from the communities ´Llanetios' and 'El Chilar'.
Arte Acción is a Honduran association that organizes socio-cultural activities for children and young adults. In Copán Ruinas they offer since 1999 art, photography, video and drama workshops to children in town and in the rural communities.
Copan, Honduras the Great Plaza heading towards the ball court
Copan, Honduras the Great Plaza heading towards the ball court
Ceremonia final ciclo Maya Copan Honduras
Fin de un ciclo en el calendario Maya.
Juego de Pelota Maya - Copán 2012 | Maya Ball Game
El equipo de Copán Ruinas logra una anotación en el juego celebrado el 18 de Diciembre de 2012 en Copán, ante el equipo de Guatemala. El resultado final fue Copan 6 - Guatemala 5. The Copan team scores during the game celebrated december the 18, 2012 in Copan against the Guatemala team. Final score was Copan 6 - Guatemala 5
Mayan Sports Field
Video of the Mayan soccer or football field at Copan Ruinas, Honduras.
Copan, the Maya Ruin
Copan Ruins, Maya civilization
Mayans meet for ritual ball games as new era looms
A Mayan shaman performs a purification ritual during a ball game between Honduras' Chorti and Guatemala's Quirigua groups in Copan Ruinas, some 400 kms west of Tegucigalpa. The Mayan Long Count calendar says an era of more than 5,000 years ends on December 21 -- doomsday for some but a reason to rejoice for many others in Mexico and central America, where the civilization once flourished. Duration: 00:39
The Maya Ball Game
The Maya Ball Game
Great ball courts take center stage in the remains of Maya cities such as Tikal,Copan,and Chichen Itza.
A ritual ball game played by the Maya people in these ball courts evoked a mythic contest in which lords of the underworld defeated and killed the maize god,who returned to life as a cornstalk,offering people sustenance.Losers in the ball game were sacrificed in the belief that their blood would nourish the earth and renew the blessings of the maize god and other Maya deities.
Teams of two men each played the game,using a solid rubber sphere about the size of a human head.(In legend,the lords of the underworld used a skull as their ball.)Wearing protective gear,players struck the ball with their hips and shoulders.The object may have been to propel the ball through a hoop on the opposing team's side.
Traveling to Honduras! Ancient Mayan site of Copan!
Quick little stop at the largest Mayan ruins in Honduras!! Before heading here I heard mixed reviews about this archaeology site! Was the visit worth it?
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Maya Ruins in Copan Honduras
Last week we visited the Maya Ruins in Copan Honduras. Our friends Ralph and Ginny Warren met us in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and then we rode the bus the rest of the way together. The Maya Ruins in Copan Honduras are very famous and the best way to appreciate their splendor would be to take a trip to Copan. The second best way to appreciate their splendor would be to watch this video.
Copán - a 3D Reconstruction
3D reconstruction of the ceremonial center in the Maya city of Copán, Honduras, early IX century.
NOTE: The 3D model that ThisIsHonduras presents here is a first trial version - not all structures, monuments, and statues known to have existed in Copán's Main Group are shown in the model, and those that are, have basic representative geometrical features only. None of the residential structures that a surrounded the ceremonial centre are shown and the topography of the mountains around the valley is only roughly representative. A more complete 3D model with higher level of detail, accurate valley topography, and showing more structures in the valley is being created as you read this.
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September 2014.
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Mayan Ball Game Uaxactun Mayan Ruins Guatemala
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