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A legend, certainly, but legends are frequently based on the truth, and this one, so persistent and long-lasting, is no exception. === In the mythology of some indigenous tribes in Honduras, monkeys were the first people, banished into the forest when humans arrived. === In the acidic rainforest soils, no organic remains survive—not even the bones of the dead. === Each main temple at Copán had been built over and around the previous one, creating a series of buildings nested together like Russian matryoshka dolls. === It was no longer a terra incognita. T1 had finally joined the rest of the world in having been discovered, explored, mapped, measured, trod upon, and photographed—a forgotten place no more. === I was covered with ugly red welts and patches, hundreds of them—but where were the actual bugs?