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Then, thanks to the way the museum has recreated the original orientation of the monuments in Temple XIX, you can walk right over to the sculptured platform from that building, where the far-right figure, who also sports a mustache, has similarly fingernail-less and deformed digits. It may be the same historical character, an uncle either of Janahb' Pakal II or his father, K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb' III (or both, since David Stuart has recently suggested that the two may have been brothers).




(Photo: Jorge Pérez de Lara)