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EL PALMAR, GUATEMALA UC Riverside News reports that a team led by archaeologist Kenichiro Tsukamoto has unearthed a temple platform and a burial at the site of El Palmar that shed light on the life and times of an eighth-century A.D. Maya “lakam,” or standard-bearer, who served as an ambassador. Hieroglyphs on a temple stairway at El Palmar record that in September of A.D. 726, the ambassador Ajpach’ Waal traveled to the city of Copan, more than 300 miles from El Palmar. There, in what must have been a diplomatic coup, he brokered an alliance between the king of Copan and the king of Calakmul, a Maya city near El Palmar. Under the temple floor the team found the burial of a man with two clay pots, presumably Ajpach’ Waal himself. Study of his remains revealed some surprises. “His life is not like we expected based on the hieroglyphics,” said Tsukamoto. “Many people say that the elite enjoyed their lives, but the story is usually more complex.” Among many malad ....
Ajpach’ Waal forged an alliance between two dynasties but died in obscurity Author: Holly Ober Share This: An important Maya man buried nearly 1,300 years ago led a privileged yet difficult life. The man, a diplomat named Ajpach’ Waal, suffered malnutrition or illness as a child, but as an adult he helped negotiate an alliance between two powerful dynasties that ultimately failed. The ensuing political instability left him in reduced economic circumstances, and he probably died in relative obscurity. Kenichiro Tsukamoto at work excavating the ancient Maya site of El Palmar. (Kenichiro Tsukamoto) During excavations at El Palmar, a small plaza compound in Mexico near the borders of Belize and Guatemala, archaeologists led by Kenichiro Tsukamoto, an assistant professor of anthropology at UC Riverside, discovered a hieroglyph-adorned stairway leading up to a ceremonial platform. When deciphered, the hieroglyphs revealed that in June, 726 CE, ....