Temple of the lion

In 1832, the antiquarian, cartographer, and explorer of the French Jean-Frédéric #Waldeck spent two years at Palenque making sketches and drawings that were published in 1866.
This would be one of the first explorations that would be the great city of #Palenque.

The drawing in the publication was in the ‘Temple of the lion,’ which owes its name to this bas-relief, now destroyed, which represents a king sitting on a throne in the form of a jaguar two-headed

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