Like Palenque itself, the two meter (6-feet) long and 60 centimeter (24 inches) wide slab dates back to the Classic period, from 250 to 900 A.D., Arnoldo Gonzalez, head of a team of Mexican ...

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.

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.

Fossil fish bearing slabs collected in Palenque, image by Alvarado-Ortega et al. 2018. ALVARADO-ORTEGA et al. 2018.

Stepped pyramids, colorful temples, and a grand palace proclaimed Palenque's brilliance, reflecting the favor of the gods and the strength of its seventh-century ruler. Pyramids in the jungleThe ...

The corpse in the crypt had surely once been some exalted leader of Palenque civilization. The hieroglyphics on the stone sarcophagus alone, estimated Dr. Ruz, had been 25 years in the carving.

“The discovery of the deposit allows us to understand how the ancient Maya of Palenque constantly revived the mythical passage on the birth, death and resurrection of the maize god,” Arnoldo ...

One slab imprinted with fish was brought into the palace, where it was painted and adorned with plaster. Palenque’s residents used other fossils, including megalodon teeth and stingray spines ...

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 ...