Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang

On all sides, blue mountains emerge from the thick emerald forest like silent stunted sentinels. Glassy gray meandering rivers reflect slivers of the sky, peppered occasionally with flocks of silhouetted birds. This is a sacred and seldom-seen corner of the world—the...

The Maya Murals of San Bartolo

Through the large gash into the darkness of the hill, jewel tones jumped to life under the flashlight beam. No, that couldn’t be right. Surely dehydration was playing tricks on him. After all, American Archaeologist Dr. William Saturno, with the rest of his team of...