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First Round Table: Early Travelers to Palenque

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The Group of the Cross, with the Temple of the Cross on the left (the hilltop building in Waldeck's view). The mountain at the foot of which these structures sit, called El Mirador or K'uk-te'-Witz, is misrepresented by Catherwood and Waldeck, both of whom show it as a separate mountain towering over the Group of the Cross and Palenque. back