This work, of extraordinary finesse, underlined the authority of the character identified as Pacal. One object particularly attracted the attention of the archaeologist: the jade and obsidian mask, made of mosaic, which covered the face of the deceased. The place was fully decorated, and the body deposited in the tomb was adorned with jade jewels. It is also reminiscent of an abandoned chapel, the dome of which is draped with stalactites, while stalagmites, thick as the drops of wax from a candle, rise from the ground”. A kind of cave, whose walls and ceiling are so smooth that they seem to have been sanded. He then visited the crypt which, according to his account, “seems to be dug in the ice. When in 1949 Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier entered it, he discovered numerous skeletons of victims sacrificed during the burial of Pacal the Great. This is where the access to the crypt which houses its sarcophagus is located. This construction, also called Temple of the Inscriptions, is accessible by a steep staircase which leads to its summit. It is known that Pacal was, in the 7th century, the king of Palenque, in whose honor a pyramid was built to serve as his eternal residence. Their attention is fixed only on the mysterious Mayan astronaut engraved on the sarcophagus lid of an equally mysterious character: Pacal the Great. Most passionate about unsolved mysteries care very little that the ancient Maya city of Palenque, located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico, is one of the most interesting examples of Mayan architecture and, above all, sculpture.
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