Old Gold-Laced Mummy With Ancient King's 'Secret Keeper' Discovered, Leaves Archaeologists Stunned In recent years, ...
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 ...
Each of the ancient Maya cities was ruled by a different king or queen. The Maya believed these rulers had to keep the gods happy. Pakal ruled for 68 years from 615-683 AD, the fifth longest of ...