Palenque's wealth of epigraphy (inscriptions ... who in 1952 rolled away a stone inside the Temple of Inscriptions and found the burial tomb of Pakal the Great. This has since become one of ...

Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids, known as the Temple of the Inscriptions. The skeletal remains inside the coffin still had the jade ...