Authors:David Stuart, George Stuart,
Publisher: Thames & Hudso
Keywords: maya, city, eternal, palenque
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-11-24
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0500051569
ISBN-13: 9780500051566

The story of the city’s rediscovery, deep in the forest-clad mountains of southeastern Mexico, told with panache by two leading Maya scholars.Sunday, June 15, 1952. Having spent four years clearing a secret passage inside Palenque’s Temple of the Inscriptions, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz gazed into a vaulted chamber. There, beneath a gigantic carved stone block, he would make a spectacular discovery: the intact burial of King Pakal, complete with jade jewelry and an exquisite burial mask.Pakal was one of the greatest ancient rulers and the most prominent among a long line of