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Sentence Examples
Copan Systems concatenates the volumes instead of striping them, but still calculates parity for them.
The dynasts of Copan traced the legitimacy of their line to the great capitals of the central Mexican plateau.
Copan has an acropolis, four kilometres of tunnels and a hieroglyphic stairway, providing historians and archaeologists with major sources of information.
Major Maya sites from this era include Copan, where numerous stelae were carved, and Quirigua where the largest stelae of Mesoamerica are located along with zoomorphic altars.
It is also interesting because it is from an early time in Maya history, before the glory days of the more spectacular cities of Palenque, Dos Pilas, Copan and Tikal.
Examples from Classical Literature
The stelae the latter describes as being twice or three times as high as those at Copan, and always monolithic.
Part of the inscription on stela N, Copan, showing a number composed of six periods.
While at Copan in May, 1912, the writer was shown a fragment of a stela which he was told was a part of this monument.
Up to the present time no successful interpretation of the inscription on stela C at Copan has been advanced.
This story has to do with the hidden city, and tells of the ancient civilization of those who lived in the Copan valley thousands of years ago.
These stelae and altars are the peculiar features of the Copan ruins.
Copan is a city, in the Department of Copan, near the boundary between Honduras and Guatemala.
I'm willing to take your word for it that there's a Copan valley in Honduras.
Copan is a city, or maybe we'll find it only a town when we get there, and it is not far from the borders of Guatemala.
He probably had Jacinto, or some of that unprincipled scoundrel's friends, show him a short route to Copan and he came on from there.
But who will translate the inscriptions at Copan and Palenque?
Near us are those of Copan, while toward the frontier are those of Quirigua, which are even better preserved than the former.
And it is supposed to be in a buried city named Kurzon, somewhere in the Sierra de Merendon range of mountains, in the vicinity of the Copan valley.
As you'll see, if you take the trouble to go through it, as I did, Copan is, or maybe was, for all I know, one of the most important centers of the Mayan civilization.
He's going to try to induce me to join his expedition to the Copan valley.
On the sculptured stones in the Copan valley there are characters which seem to resemble very ancient writing, but this pictographic writing is largely untranslatable.
You mean he wants to get it and take it away from the Copan valley, Tom?
