Each of the ancient Maya cities was ruled by a different king or queen ... burial in Britain. Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids ...

Each of the ancient Maya cities was ruled by a different king or queen ... burial in Britain. Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids ...

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 ...

Carrasco says the Palenque known to modernity is the product of a limited number of rulers, starting with Pakal the Great ... between nobles and the king. The construction of elite building ...