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Palenque (Spanish: [pa'leŋke] (meaning “fortification”); Yucatec Mayan: Bàakʼ /ɓàːkʼ/) was a Maya city state in what is now Chiapas, Mexico that dates from circa 226 BCE to c. 799 CE. After its decline, the site was re-absorbed into the jungle, but has since been excavated and restored. Much of Palenque's history has been pieced together from a deciphering of the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the many monuments, and historians now have in-depth knowledge of the city-state's interplay with other rival city states.

Here photographed at Palenque, the Temple of the Cross Complex(the three main temples that comprise the Cross Complex are aligned to form a cross.). Left to right: the Temple of the Sun with the Temple of the Inscriptions behind; Temple XIV; El Palacio in the background and bottom right, the staircase rising to the Temple Of The Cross.

When the Spanish arrived in Chiapas in the 16th century, Palenque had been largely abandoned and the region was very sparsely populated. Father Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada was the first European to present a description of the ruins which he named Palenque, and according to his early accounts, the stone structures were still stucco-rendered and painted blue and red.

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