The site

Palenque is a Maya city-state in the jungles of Chiapas, southern Mexico, active from around 100 BCE until its decline in the ninth century. Though medium-sized, it holds some of the finest architecture, sculpture, and bas-relief carving the Maya ever produced, crowned by delicate roof combs. Much of its dynastic history has been recovered by reading the hieroglyphic inscriptions carved across its temples and palace.

Field notes

civilizations

Maya

types

City · Temple · Palace · Pyramid tomb · Aqueduct

built

400 CE — 800 CE

occupied

100 BCE — 900 CE

country

Mexico