The Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque, set against the rainforest hills of Chiapas. The Maya king K'inich Janaab' Pakal began it as his own funerary monument, and his son K'inich Kan B'alam II finished it soon after Pakal's death in 683 CE. In 1948 the archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier…
