Mustaphin: How the Ordinary King Maya Got to the World's Most Famous Rulers

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This recognition may seem somewhat strange — if only because Baakul was in fact neither the greatest nor the most influential political formation of the “classical” Maya. And inferior in “weight”, say, to Mutul. Or Canul, on whom he himself depended on the eve of Pakal's coming to power, and possibly in the early years of his reign. The relief on the plate of the sarcophagus of Pakal the Great, and even at the time of the highest elevation of Ba…