The Maya ruins of Palenque sit in the mist-shrouded jungles of eastern Mexico. The Temple of the Inscriptions, shown here, is the site's most impressive structure.

There’s evidence of farming at Palenque as far back as 100 B.C., but the Maya Classic period, when the civilization flourished, was between about A.D. 200 and 900.

Great Tombs of the Maya The Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, is Pakal the Great’s tomb was found in 1952. To its right is Temple XIII, is the resting place of the Red Queen.

Palenque was a Maya city-state that was occupied from the late first millennium B.C. to around the 8th century A.D. The archaeological site contains some of the finest-known examples of Maya ...

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Archaeologists working in the ruins of Palenque, an ancient city in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Maya nose ornament made of human bone.

Archaeologists in the southern Mexican city of Palenque, Chiapas, have found a centuries-old, intricately carved Maya nose ornament made of human bone that offers insight into ancient funerary ...

When Palenque, like many Maya city states, collapsed in the 10th century, its temples and their fossils were abandoned and swallowed by the forest.

The extension adds eight new stations to the railway on the Yucatán peninsula. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador officially inaugurated the second phase of the Mayan Train project on Dec.