THE MYSTERY OF THE RED QUEEN

The bones of a ancient queen was found after 13 centuries, pretty fuckin crazy right? Archaeologist were looking in one of a lot of ancient mayan pyrmids and discovered the bones of tzakbu Ajaw. The wife of Pakal. She was born in (AD626-640AD) She came from a neighboring city-state and was married to Pakal as a teenager. She produced three sons; the first was born nine years after their marriage; the second, nine years later; and the third; four years later. Two of her three sons eventually ruled Palenque. So These peopple find har and in the beggining they did not know who the skeloton was, the had an idea of three possibility of who the mummie could be.

The first thought of the identity of the mummie was an ancient queen named Yol Ik Nal. Yol Ik Nal. Her rule lasted from A.D. 583 to 604. She was a strong ruler, but during her reign, the city-state was under siege. It was a tumultuous time for Palenque. She was a powerful war leader, and also the first women to ruled the palenque.Female rulers were very rare in the Classic Maya world, and usually they meant trouble. Trouble, that is, for the kingdom, because their presence foreshadowed a break in the patriline, and therefore a crisis in the legitimacy of the royal line. In the case of Ix Yol Ik'nal, we do not know the precise details surrounding the succession. We do not even know her birth date or her relationship with previous rulers. She was probably either the sister or daughter of Kan B'alam I—much more likely the latter. Whether Kan B' alam had no living sons or younger brothers, or whether Ix Yol Ik'nal got rid of male rivals to Palenque's throne is not clear. I suspect the former, and that her ascension to the throne was a smooth one, because she was crowned within a year of Kan B'alam I's death, and also because later rulers included her in their "honor-rolls" of ancestors. She is named in due order in the East Tablet of the Temple of the Inscriptions, on the Sarcophagus below the same temple, and in the Tablet of the Cross. Ix Yol Ik'nal is also named in the "K'an Tok" Tablet from Group XVI, commissioned by the last great king of Palenque, K'inich K'uk' B'alam II, to record the accessions to office of a series of Palenque nobles under the supervison of various Palenque rulers.

The second thought of who the corps could be was sak kukIx Sak K'uk' (sometimes rendered as Zac Kuk) was Queen of the Maya state of B'aakal, now known as Palenque, in what is now eastern Mexico
Her father was Pacal I. As Pacal It seem to have had no male heirs, she ascended to the throne on 22 October 612, a few months after her father's death. After his maturity, her son Pacal II, better known as Pacal the great, succeeded her as ruler on 29 July 615. She seems to have continued to wield considerable influence over Palenque in the early decades of her son's reign. Sak K'uk' died on 12 September.The mother of Pakal, Palenque’s strongest ruler. Zak Kuk had a great deal of power; archaeologists suspect that her behind-the-scenes maneuvering ensured that her son was selected as the next king. Although he became king when he was 12 years old, she continued to be very involved in the ruling of the kingdom until her death.