The mysterious figure painted on the lid is King Pascal, whose tomb was found in the “Temple of Inscriptions” in 1952.
The mysterious tomb of the Maya king Pakal attracted the interest of ancient astronaut theorists such as Zachariah and Erich von Daniken, who suggested that the carved lid of the sarcophagus found in his tomb depicts an ancient astronaut.
On the lid, as in his tomb, the Pakal is located in an intermediate
space surrounded by drawings and symbols running along the edges of the
lid and representing important components of Maya cosmology. He was only
12 years old when he took the throne of Palenque in 615 AD, and he
ruled successfully until his death at the age of 80....<<<Read More>>>...