COPAN, Okla. — The consistent boil advisories and orders placed on hundreds of neighbors in and around the town of Copan are over, according to town officials citing Oklahoma Department of ...

In 1839, John Lloyd Stevens and Frederick Catherwood pushed through war, bandits, and malaria to reach Copan and beyond, producing the drawings and travel accounts that revealed the sophistication of ...

COPAN, Okla. — People in Copan are still experiencing water issues months after the Oklahoma Department of Environment Quality (DEQ) put the town under a boil notice. DEQ says Copan has been under the ...

Amidst the record-setting droughts plaguing the Midwest throughout summer 2023, visitors and staff at Copan Lake, managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, witnessed Copan Lake’s ...

When John [Lloyd] Stephens came here about 160 years ago, he speculated that the inscriptions contained royal history, that it was history written in stone. It turned out he was absolutely right. He ...

In 776 A.D., the last king of Copan eagerly sought to prove his suitability to rule the Maya city state. More than a decade into his tenure, Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat built the final version of a temple ...

Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most important sites of the Mayan civilization, were not excavated until the 19th century. The ruined citadel and imposing ...

COPAN, Okla. — The town of Copan in Washington County is once again under a boil water notice. This time local officials said it's because of muddy water plaguing its ageing filtration system. In the ...

In Copán – a major transit point for cocaine – drug trafficking groups collaborate with local authorities to smuggle narcotics over the department’s porous western border with Guatemala. Despite a ...