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The city of Palenque also is home to the Temple of the Inscriptions; inside lies the Sarcophagus of Pacal the Great. Palenque ( Spanish pronunciation: [pa'leŋke] ; Yucatec Maya : Bàakʼ [ɓaːkʼ] ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamha ("big water or big waters"), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that ...
Temple of Inscriptions. The Temple of the Inscriptions (Classic Maya: Bʼolon Yej Teʼ Naah (Mayan pronunciation: [ɓolon jex teʔ naːh]) "House of the Nine Sharpened Spears" [1]) is the largest Mesoamerican stepped pyramid structure at the pre-Columbian Maya civilization site of Palenque, located in the modern-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Carved lid of the tomb of Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I in the Temple of the Inscriptions. The large carved stone sarcophagus lid in the Temple of Inscriptions is a unique piece of Classic Maya art. Iconographically, however, it is closely related to the large wall panels of the temples of the Cross and the Foliated Cross centered on world trees.
The Tomb of the Red Queen is a burial chamber containing the remains of a noblewoman, perhaps Lady Ix Tz'akbu Ajaw, and two servants, located inside Temple XIII in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Palenque, now the Palenque National Park, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It has been dated to between 600 and 700 AD.
The Mask of Pakal is a funerary jade mask found in the tomb of the Mayan king, K’inich Janaab’ Pakal inside the Temple of the Inscriptions at the Maya city of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. Considered a master piece of Mesoamerican and Maya art , the mask is made with over 346 green jade stone fragments, the eyes are made with shell, nacre ...
An archaeologist studies the 600-year-old remains inside a sarcophagus. Photos show what was waiting inside the 600-year-old coffins. Some burials still contained fragments of fabric or other ...
A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in an Egyptian burial chamber came with a complicated history: Ancient writing on the stone container showed that it had been used twice, but while its second ...
Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist.He specialized in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal.