El Naranjo, Mexico
Tomb of the Red Queen
The Tomb of the Red Queen is a burial chamber containing the remains of a noblewoman, perhaps Lady Ix Tz'akbu Ajaw, and two servants, located inside Temple XIII in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Palenque, now the Palenque National Park, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It has been dated to between 600 and 700 AD. The tomb was discovered in 1994 by the Mexican archeologist Fanny Lopez Jimenez after being commissioned to perform routine stabilization work on a set of temple stairs by the local archaeologist Arnoldo González Cruz.
- City
- El Naranjo
- Country
- Mexico
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
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