Monuments from Palenque, Mexico

This post is mostly a photographic presentation of monuments from Palenque, Mexico.

Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century.  After its decline, it was absorbed into the jungle of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees,  but has since been excavated and restored. It is located near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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Palenque is a medium-sized site, smaller than Tikal, Chichen Itza, or Copán, but it contains some of the finest architecture, sculpture, roof comb and bas-relief carvings that the Mayas produced. Much of the history of Palenque has been reconstructed from reading the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the many monuments; historians now have a long sequence of the ruling dynasty of Palenque in the 5th century and extensive knowledge of the city-state’s rivalry with other states such as Calakmul and Toniná.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palenque)

(Important Note: ALL photographs of this article added to the sourced texts by NovoScriptorium after kind courtesy of our friend Ben Lee – ALL photographs originally taken by Ben Lee)