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Palenque (Yucatec Maya: Bàakʼ /ɓàːkʼ/), also anciently known as Lakamha (literally: "Big Water"), was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. [1]

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Administrative divisions of Mexico

The United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic composed of 31 states and the capital, Mexico City, an autonomous entity on par with the states.

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Ahkal Mo' Nahb I

Ahkal Mo' Nahb I,The ruler's name, when transcribed is a-ku-AL MO'NA:B, translated "Turtle Macaw Lake?".

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Ahkal Mo' Nahb II

Ahkal Mo' Nahb IIThe ruler's name, when transcribed is a-ku-AL MO'na-bi, translated "Turtle Macaw Lake?".

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Ajen Yohl Mat

Ajen Yohl MatThe ruler's name, when transcribed is AJ-je-ne-(Y)O:L m-ta.

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Alberto Ruz Lhuillier

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist.

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Alfred Maudslay

Alfred Percival Maudslay (18 March 1850 – 22 January 1931) was a British diplomat, explorer and archaeologist.

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American Treasures

American Treasures is a reality television show on Discovery Channel.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River - geographically Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, in the place that is now occupied by the countries of Egypt and Sudan.

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Antigua Guatemala

Antigua Guatemala, commonly referred to as just Antigua or la Antigua, is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala famous for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque-influenced architecture as well as a number of ruins of colonial churches.

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Antonio Bernasconi

Antonio Bernasconi (Antonio Bernaskoni; Russian: Антонио Бернаскони; 1726 – 1805) was a Russian stuccoist born in Switzerland.

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Antonio del Río

Antonio del Río (c. 1745 – c. 1789) was a captain who led the first excavation of the Mayan ruins of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico.

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Aqueduct (water supply)

An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to convey water.

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B'utz Aj Sak Chiik

B'utz Aj Sak Chiik,The ruler's name, when transcribed is bu-tz'a-ja-SAK-chi, translated "Smoking White/Resplendent Coati?".

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Belize

Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.

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Calakmul

Calakmul (also Kalakmul and other less frequent variants) is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region.

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Casper (Maya ruler)

"Casper",The real name of the ruler has not been deciphered.

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Chiapas

Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the 31 states that with Mexico City make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza, Chichén Itzá, often with the emphasis reversed in English to; from Chi'ch'èen Ìitsha' (Barrera Vásquez et al., 1980.) "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people" was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period.

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Cinnabar

Cinnabar and cinnabarite, likely deriving from the κιννάβαρι (kinnabari), refer to the common bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide (HgS) that is the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury, and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments.

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Ciudad del Carmen

Ciudad del Carmen is a city in the southwest of the Mexican state of Campeche.

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Copán

Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala.

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Corbel arch

A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch) is an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure, such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge.

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Cross

A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other.

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David H. Kelley

David Humiston Kelley (April 1, 1924 in Albany, New York – May 19, 2011) was a Canadian American archaeologist and epigrapher, most noted for his work on the phonetic analysis and major contributions toward the decipherment of the writing system used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the Maya script.

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David Stuart (Mayanist)

David Stuart (born 1965) is an archaeologist and epigrapher specializing in the study of ancient Mesoamerica, especially Maya civilization.

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Désiré Charnay

Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay (2 May 182824 October 1915) was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.

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Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and garden of Robert Woods Bliss (1875–1962) and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879–1969).

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Elizabeth P. Benson

Elizabeth P. Benson (born May 13, 1924) is an American art historian, curator and scholar, known for her extensive contributions over a long career to the study of pre-Columbian art, in particular that of Mesoamerica and the Andes.

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Floyd Lounsbury

Floyd Glenn Lounsbury (April 25, 1914 – May 14, 1998) was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his work on linguistic and cultural systems of a variety of North and South American languages.

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Frans Blom

Frans Blom (Frants Ferdinand Blom; August 9, 1893, Copenhagen – June 23, 1963, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico) was a Danish explorer and archaeologist.

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Frederick Catherwood

Frederick Catherwood (27 February 1799 – 27 September 1854) was an English artist, architect and explorer, best remembered for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of the Maya civilization.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Huaca Rajada

Huaca Rajada, also known as Sipán, is a Moche archaeological site in northern Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, that is famous for the tomb of Lord of Sipán (El Señor de Sipán), excavated by Walter Alva and his wife Susana Meneses beginning in 1987.

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Indigenous peoples of Mexico

Indigenous peoples of Mexico (pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans (nativos mexicanos), or Mexican Native Americans (Mexicanos nativo americanos), are those who are part of communities that trace their roots back to populations and communities that existed in what is now Mexico prior to the arrival of Europeans.

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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Institute of Anthropology and History) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico.

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Jade

Jade is an ornamental mineral, mostly known for its green varieties, which is featured prominently in ancient Asian art.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a wild cat species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

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Janaab Pakal III

Janaab Pakal III,The ruler's name, when transcribed is 6-? ja-na-bi pa-ka-la, translated "6 Death ? Shield".

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Janahb Pakal

Janahb Pakal also known as Janaab Pakal, Pakal I or Pakal the Elder, (died c.612), was a nobleman and possible ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque.

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Jean-Frédéric Waldeck

Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck (March 16, 1766? – April 30, 1875) was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer.

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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805 – October 13, 1852) was an American explorer, writer, and diplomat.

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Jorge R. Acosta

Jorge R. Acosta (1904–5 March 1975) was a Mexican archaeologist who worked on numerous major archaeological sites in Mesoamerica, including Chichen Itza, Teotihuacán, Oaxaca, Palenque, Monte Albán and Tula.

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Juan Galindo

Juan Galindo (1802–1839) was a Central American explorer and army officer.

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K'an Joy Chitam I

K'an Joy Chitam I,The ruler's name, when transcribed is K'AN-na-JOY-ma, translated "Precious/Yellow Tied Peccary".

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K'atun

A k'atun is a unit of time in the Maya calendar equal to 20 tuns or 7,200 days, equivalent to 19.713 tropical years.

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K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb III

K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb IIIThe ruler's name, when transcribed is K'INICH-AHK-AL MO', translated "Radiant Turtle Macaw Lake?".

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K'inich Janaab Pakal II

K'inich Janaab Pakal II,The ruler's name, when transcribed is u-PAKAL-la-K'INICH (K'INICH-) JANA:B-pa-ka-la, translated "Shield of the Sun God Radiant ?-Shield".

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K'inich Janaab' Pakal

K'inich Janaab Pakal IThe ruler's name, when transcribed is K'INICH-JANA:B-PAKAL-la, translated "Radiant ? Shield", Martin & Grube 2008, p. 162.

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K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II

K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II,The ruler's name, when transcribed is K'INICH K'AN-na-JOY-ma, translated "Precious/Yellow Tied Peccary".

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K'inich K'uk' Bahlam II

K'inich K'uk' Bahlam II,The ruler's name, when transcribed is K'INICH-K'UK-ma, translated "Radiant Quetzal Jaguar".

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K'inich Kan Bahlam II

K'inich Kan Bahlam IIThe ruler's name, when transcribed is K'INICH KAN-ma, translated "Radiant Snake Jaguar", Martin & Grube 2008, p. 168.

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K'inich Kan Bahlam III

K'inich Kan Bahlam III,The ruler's name, when transcribed is K'INICH-ka-KAN, translated "Radiant Jaguar Snake".

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K'uk' Bahlam I

K'uk' Bahlam I,The ruler's name, when transcribed is K'UK', translated "Quetzal Jaguar".

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Kan Bahlam I

Kan Bahlam IThe ruler's name, when transcribed is (K'INICH) KAN-ma, translated "Radiant Snake Jaguar".

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Lacandon Jungle

The Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Selva Lacandona) is an area of rainforest which stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala and into the southern part of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Linda Schele

Linda Schele (October 30, 1942 – April 18, 1998) was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography.

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List of largest monoliths

This is a list of monoliths organized according to the size of the largest block of stone on the site.

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List of Mesoamerican pyramids

This is a list of Mesoamerican pyramids or ceremonial structures.

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Mansard roof

A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper.

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Maya city

Maya Cities were the centres of population of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its hieroglyphic script—the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.

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Maya maize god

Like other Mesoamerican people, the traditional Mayas recognize in their staple crop, maize, a vital force with which they strongly identify.

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Maya mythology

Maya mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles.

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Maya script

Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, was the writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.

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Mayanist

A Mayanist (Spanish: "mayista") is a scholar specialising in research and study of the Mesoamerican pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

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Merle Greene Robertson

Merle Greene Robertson (August 30, 1913 – April 22, 2011) was an American artist, art historian, archaeologist, lecturer and Mayanist researcher, renowned for her extensive work towards the investigation and preservation of the art, iconography, and writing of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Central America.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is an important historical region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played since 1400 BCSee Hill, Blake and Clark (1998); Schuster (1998).

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Middle American Research Institute

The Middle American Research Institute was established at Tulane University in 1924.

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Moche culture

The Moche civilization (alternatively, the Mochica culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru from about 100 to 700 AD during the Regional Development Epoch.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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New World

The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).

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Nikolai Grube

Nikolai Grube is a German epigrapher.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Peter Mathews (archaeologist)

Peter Mathews (born 12 June 1951 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist.

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Polynesia

Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Princess consort

Princess consort is an official title or an informal designation that is normally accorded to the wife of a sovereign prince.

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Queen regnant

A queen regnant (plural: queens regnant) is a female monarch, equivalent in rank to a king, who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning king, or a queen regent, who is the guardian of a child monarch and reigns temporarily in the child's stead.

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Quetzal

Quetzal are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Robert Sharer

Robert J. Sharer (1940–2012) was an American archaeologist, academic and Mayanist researcher.

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Roof comb

Roof comb (or roof-comb) is the structure that tops a pyramid in monumental Mesoamerican architecture.

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Sak K'uk'

Sak K'uk'The ruler's name, when transcribed is ?-MAT.

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Solar deity

A solar deity (also sun god or sun goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.

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Step pyramid

A step pyramid or stepped pyramid is an architectural structure that uses flat platforms, or steps, receding from the ground up, to achieve a completed shape similar to a geometric pyramid.

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Stephen D. Houston

Stephen Douglas Houston (born November 11, 1958) is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar, who is particularly renowned for his research into the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tat’yana Avenirovna Proskuriakova (Татья́на Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва) (– August 30, 1985) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Temple 20

Temple 20 (or Temple XX) is a pyramidal building, dated to between AD 430 and 600 (Early Classic period), located at the Maya city of Palenque in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico with a funerary chamber that contains remains of a high rank character.

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Temple of the Inscriptions

The Temple of the Inscriptions (Classic Maya: Bʼolon Yej Teʼ Naah "House of the Nine Sharpened Spears") 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.

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Ten Lost Tribes

The ten lost tribes were the ten of the twelve tribes of ancient Israel that were said to have been deported from the Kingdom of Israel after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire circa 722 BCE.

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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson (also Thames and Hudson and sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture.

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Tikal

Tikal (Tik’al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala.

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Tomb of the Red Queen

The Tomb of the Red Queen is a burial chamber containing the remains of an unknown noblewoman located inside Temple XIII in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Palenque, now the Palenque National Park, in the Chiapas state in southern Mexico.

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Toniná

Tonina (or Toniná in Spanish orthography) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site and ruined city of the Maya civilization located in what is now the Mexican state of Chiapas, some 13 km (8.1 mi) east of the town of Ocosingo.

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Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Usumacinta River

The Usumacinta River (named after the Howler monkey) is a river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala.

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William Morrow and Company

William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926.

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Yaxchilan

Yaxchilan is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

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Yohl Ik'nal

Yohl IkʻnalThe ruler's name, when transcribed is IX-(Y)O:L-la IK'-NAL-la, translated as "Lady Heart of the Wind Place".

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Yucatec Maya language

Yucatec Maya (endonym: Maya; Yukatek Maya in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala), called Màaya t'àan (lit. "Maya speech") by its speakers, is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palenque

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