Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids, known as the Temple of the Inscriptions. The skeletal remains inside the coffin still had the jade ...

Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids, known as the Temple of the Inscriptions. The skeletal remains inside the coffin still had the jade ...

Carrasco says the Palenque known to modernity is the product of a limited number of rulers, starting with Pakal the Great (603-683), his son, K'inich Kan Bahlam (635-702), and K'inich Akul Mo ...

Palenque’s heyday was the seventh century A.D., when, under the reign of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal I (King Pakal the Great), the city was transformed from relative obscurity into a powerful Maya ...