Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Ancient Mayan city state in present-day southern Mexico | WIKI |
| PalenqueCollage of Palenque.Location within MesoamericaAlternativexc2xa0nameBxc3xa0ak', LakamhaLocationChiapas,xc2xa0MexicoRegionChiapasCoordinates17xc2xb029xe2x80xb203xe2x80xb3N 92xc2xb002xe2x80xb247xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf17.48417xc2xb0N 92.04639xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 17.48417; -92.04639Coordinates: 17xc2xb029xe2x80xb203xe2x80xb3N 92xc2xb002xe2x80xb247xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf17.48417xc2xb0N 92.04639xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 17.48417; -92.04639HistoryPeriodsLate Preclassic to Early PostclassicCulturesMaya civilizationSite notes UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficialxc2xa0namePre-Hispanic City and National Park of PalenqueCriteriaCultural: i, ii, iii, ivReference411Inscription1987 (11th session)Area1,772 ha The city of Palenque also is home to The Temple of Inscriptions, inside lies the sarcophagus of Pacal the Great. | WIKI |
| By 2005, the discovered area covered up to 2.5xc2xa0km2 (1xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi), but it is estimated that less than 10% of the total area of the city is explored, leaving more than a thousand structures still covered by jungle. | WIKI |
| [3] One of the main figures responsible for rebuilding Palenque and for a renaissance in the city's art and architecture is also one of the best-known Maya Ajaw, Kxcaxbcinich Janaabxcaxbc Pakal (Pacal the Great), who ruled from 615 to 683. | WIKI |
| Beside the attention that K'inich Janaab' Pakal's tomb brought to Palenque, the city is historically significant for its extensive hieroglyphic corpus composed during the reigns of Janaab' Pakal, his son Kxcaxbcinich Kan Bahlam II, and his grandson K'inich Akal Mo' Naab', and for being the location where Heinrich Berlin[4] and later Linda Schele and Peter Mathews outlined the first dynastic list for any Maya city. | WIKI |
| A list of possible and known Maya rulers[9][10] of the city, with dates of their reigns: | WIKI |
| Known as the favorite of the gods, he carried Palenque to new levels of splendor, in spite of having come to power when the city was at a low point. | WIKI |
| Most of the palaces and temples of Palenque were constructed during his government; the city flourished as never before, eclipsing Tikal. | WIKI |
| The Temple of the Inscriptions records approximately 180 years of the city's history from the 4th through 12th K'atun. | WIKI |
| The focal point of the narrative records K'inich Janaab' Pakal's K'atun period-ending rituals focused on the icons of the city's patron deities prosaically known collectively as the Palenque Triad or individually as GI, GII, and GIII. | WIKI |
| In 1952 Alberto Ruz Lhuillier removed a stone slab in the floor of the back room of the temple superstructure to reveal a passageway (filled in shortly before the city's abandonment and reopened by archeologists) leading through a long stairway to Pakal's tomb. | WIKI |
| The Palace is located in the center of the ancient city. | WIKI |
| Draughtsman Luciano Castaxc3xb1eda made more drawings in 1807, and a book on Palenque, Descriptions of the Ruins of an Ancient City, discovered near Palenque, was published in London in 1822 based on the reports of those last two expeditions together with engravings based on Bernasconi and Castaxc3xb1edas drawings; two more publications in 1834 contained descriptions and drawings based on the same sources. | WIKI |
| In the last 15 or 20 years, a great deal more of the site has been excavated, but currently, archaeologists estimate that only 5% of the total city has been uncovered. | WIKI |
| The city was founded during the Late Preclassic, which corresponds to the beginning of the Christian era. | UNESCO |
| 500 A.D., the city rose to be a powerful capital within a regional political unit. | UNESCO |
| The ancient city has a planned urban layout, with monumental edifices and some of the largest clearings found in all the Maya area. | UNESCO |
| As in the case of the sitexe2x80x99s integrity, the authenticity of the site and its elements was protected by the dense vegetation and the fact that the city was abandoned already in pre-Hispanic times. | UNESCO |