and the Temple of Inscriptions, said to be one of the most profuse sources of glyphic text from the Maya world. It maps nearly 200 years of Palenque's history. The three rulers also commissioned ...

Its imposing palaces, extensive administrative buildings, and temples filled with expressive bas-relief sculptures set Palenque apart from other Maya sites in Mexico, and it even rivals the ...

on the western border of the Mayan cultural zone. Criteria (iii): Palenque bears a unique testimony to the mythology and the rites of the Mayas, notably in the incredible number of sculpted reliefs on ...

The Temple of the Frescoes ... place of green stones") lay along the trade route between the two great Maya sites of Palenque and Tikal. But today it stands in a remote, little-visited jungle ...

Palenque and Comalcalco. In addition to its memorable artifacts, Museo Maya de Cancún's architecture proves impressive. It boasts floor-to-ceiling, hurricane-resistant glass windows – a ...

The discoveries of the deposits of houses B and E revealed “the majority exploitation of fish, one of the least studied animal groups in Mayan zooarchaeology”. The information was released in ...

An inscription found in the Mayan temple of Tortuguero make a prediction of an apocalyptic ... in Australia was presented for the first time at the archaeological site of Palenque in southern Mexico.

The Palenque ruins are a must-visit when ... and intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions in the city's temples. They reveal much about Mayan culture, mythology, and calendar systems and have helped ...

Each of the ancient Maya cities was ruled by a different ... in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids, known as the Temple of the Inscriptions. The skeletal remains inside the coffin still had ...