Named people
Kings, queens, and the people who studied them, as the sources name them.
The rulers of Tikal return to this page in December.
Rulers and nobles
- K’inich Janaab’ Pakal
- Palenque, Late Classic His sarcophagus lid shows him in the jaws of a centipede (Chinchilla Mazariegos, 2017, p. 123).
- Bird Jaguar IV and Lady Chahk Skull
- Yaxchilán, Late Classic Parents of Itzamnaaj Bahlam IV, shown with bloodletting tools (Chinchilla Mazariegos, 2017, p. 123).
- Waxaklahuun Ubah K’awiil
- Copán, Late Classic Named as an impersonator of God S (Chinchilla Mazariegos, 2017, p. 175).
- Aj K’ax B’ahlam
- Tortuguero, AD 681 Named on the Tortuguero Box in the Kislak Collection (Library of Congress, n.d.).
Those who studied them
- Gertrude Duby Blom and Frans Blom
- Na Bolom Photographer and archaeologist, founders of Na Bolom (Bürgi, 2011).
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
- Palenque and Mexico City Found Pakal’s tomb and founded the Centro de Estudios Mayas (de la Garza, 2017).
- Ian Graham
- Peabody Museum Founding director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (Peabody Museum, n.d.).
To come
- Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Yuri Knorozov, Linda Schele, and David Stuart, and how the glyphs came to be read.
- Maya scholars and keepers of knowledge today.
Sources
- Aoyama, K. (2007). Elite artists and craft producers in Classic Maya society: Lithic evidence from Aguateca, Guatemala. Latin American Antiquity, 18(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/25063083
- Bürgi, M. (2011, June 16). Gertrude Duby-Blom. In Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz [Historical dictionary of Switzerland]. https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/022738
- Chinchilla Mazariegos, O. (2017). Art and myth of the ancient Maya. Yale University Press.
- de la Garza, M. (2017). Estudios de cultura maya. Una ventana a la investigación mayista internacional. Estudios de Cultura Maya, 50, 11-21. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.2017.50.917
- Houston, S., Román Ramírez, E., Garrison, T. G., Stuart, D., Escobedo Ayala, H., & Rosales, P. (2021). A Teotihuacan complex at the Classic Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala. Antiquity, 95(384), Article e32. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.140
- Kennett, D. J., Hajdas, I., Culleton, B. J., Belmecheri, S., Martin, S., Neff, H., Awe, J., Graham, H. V., Freeman, K. H., Newsom, L., Lentz, D. L., Anselmetti, F. S., Robinson, M., Marwan, N., Southon, J., Hodell, D. A., & Haug, G. H. (2013). Correlating the ancient Maya and modern European calendars with high-precision AMS 14C dating. Scientific Reports, 3, Article 1597. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01597
- Library of Congress. (n.d.). Exploring the early Americas. Exhibition. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. (n.d.). About the Maya Corpus. https://peabody.harvard.edu/about-corpus-maya-hieroglyphic-inscriptions
- Stuart, D. (2026). The four heavens: A new history of the ancient Maya. Princeton University Press.
- Wright, L. E. (2012). Immigration to Tikal, Guatemala: Evidence from stable strontium and oxygen isotopes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 31(3), 334–352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.02.001
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