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The pyramidal abase of Copan is lullt up to considerable height, and upon the flat top are placed the palaces, the altars and other smaller pyramids. From all evidence Copan was in ruins when Cortez conquered Mexico in 1521. The Spaniard and his soldiers passed wlthlp a short distance! of it and did not see the town at allJ so it must have been deserted avenj then. And yet t&e ruins of Copan bear evidence of having lain there,' buried amid the luxuriant foliage of Honduras, far ages, and. only som» crude Inscriptions on the rocks canj give a clue to the history of the woti-, derful place. These inscriptions arid carvings still defy solution. There statues and Images made of rook, buti they are meaningless. Copan's history) is unknown and so scientists xfa Wont to speak of it as "the oldest oltyi in America."
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