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Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906–25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. Specializing in the archaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, he was most famous for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the spectacular tomb of Pacal the Great.

Ruz Lhuillier was born in Paris, France, and went to college in Havana, Cuba. He moved to Mexico in 1936 and later acquired Mexican citizenship.

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier died in Montreal, Canada.

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The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents.
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Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Spanish: Mesoamérica) is a region in the mid-latitudes of the Americas, namely the culture area within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the
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Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems.
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Pacal II, also known as Pacal the Great (the most recent work gives his full name as K'inich Janaab' Pakal [1] (26 March, 603 - 31 August, 683), was ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque.
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