Pakal Sarcophagus Lid 1 Wood Print

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The Pakal sarcophagus lid became an icon of Maya art and is famous the world over.

K'inich Janaab' Pakal (March 603 to August 683), was ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology.

During a long reign of some 68 years, the longest known regnal period in Western Hemisphere history, and the twenty-seventh longest worldwide.

Pakal was responsible for the construction or extension of some of Palenque's most notable surviving inscriptions and monumental architecture.

The Temple of the Inscriptions 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.

The structure was specifically built as the funerary monument for K'inich Janaab' Pakal, ajaw or ruler of Palenque in the 7th century whose reign over the polity lasted almost 70 years.

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