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Mexican temple discovered containing tomb of ancient Mayan king<\/h3>\n

Home for the Mayan, or Maya, was a stretch of land known as Mesoamerica, present-day Mexico and Central America.<\/p>\n

By the 9th century, their culture was established in the region, an extremely sophisticated and advanced people whose knowledge spanned much, from medicine and technology to astronomy and sports.<\/p>\n

While all Maya shared a common culture and religion, each settlement governed itself and had its now so-called ‘noble ruler’ who imposed their power.<\/p>\n

This led to many wars, something that historians believe played a crucial part in the civilisation’s eventual downfall and disappearance, which occurred somewhere around the late 15th century.<\/p>\n

In those 500 or so years, the Maya built an empire and created a vast number of objects and structures that would become relics and artefacts, one of which was found deep inside an ancient temple in Palenque.<\/p>\n

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Set within Mexico’s vast southern jungle landscape, Palenque isn’t one of the Maya’s biggest cities but has been dubbed one of its most beautiful.<\/p>\n

It is filled with almost perfectly preserved architecture, carvings and sculptures, some of which are the finest surviving examples found anywhere in Mexico and Central America.<\/p>\n

While the Maya were established by the 9th century, they had spent hundreds of years cultivating their culture, and much of this came within Palenque. In the 7th century, the city was ruled by the powerful King Pacal the Great.<\/p>\n

His was one of the longest reigns of the Maya, lasting some 70 years, and he oversaw much of Palenque’s most impressive feats of engineering, including its massive Central Palace.<\/p>\n

Perhaps his most important work came with the Temple of Inscriptions, in which archaeologists previously found an eerie so-called death mask, which was explored during the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary, ‘Sacred Sites: Maya’.<\/p>\n

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