Background
Ruz Lhuillier was born in Paris, France to a Cuban father and a French mother.
(A book from the work that the author carried out for ten ...)
A book from the work that the author carried out for ten seasons of exploration in Palenque(1949-1958). The text-accompanied by 266 beautiful photographs and illustrations shows the architecture, decorative elements, epigraphy and the enormous wealth of the ceramic material and other objects. Thereby the characterization of the periods of the tomb, the pyramid and the temple itself is consumed. In this third edition, all figures have been redistributed, in order to make more accessible the query and more agile the reading from each one of them.
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Ruz Lhuillier was born in Paris, France to a Cuban father and a French mother.
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
He specialized in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal. Ruz Lhuillier is sometimes referred to as the "Hitchcock of Archaeology". In addition, these early student life experiences exposed him to other students who espoused the theories and ideas of Karl Marx.
Later Ruz would use some of these theories to explain the development and fall of ancient Maya civilization.
He moved to Mexico in 1936, later acquiring Mexican citizenship. After the unexpected death of Miguel Ángel Fernández in 1945, Ruz Lhuillier took charge of the INAH"s investigations at Palenque.
While he served as the INAH"s southern Director of Pre-Hispanic Monuments, Ruz Lhuillier excavated much of the city and restored and conserved such edifices as the Palace. In 1948, he discovered the entrance to the tomb of the Maya ruler, K"inich Janaab" Pakal, hidden beneath the Temple of the Inscriptions.
After four seasons of clearing the rubble-filled stairway, he found Pakal"s sarcophagus and body.
Ruz Lhuillier"s team also found the Tablet of the Palace, which served as the back to a throne, and the Tablet of the Slaves which depicts a cahal amid bound captives. Ruz Lhuillier continued working at the site until 1958. Ruz Lhuillier died in Montreal, Canada on 25 August 1979.
Several of his books on the Maya, including Los Antiguos Mayas, were published posthumously.
(A book from the work that the author carried out for ten ...)
He went to college in Havana, Cuba, where he learned about the impact of American interference in Cuban affairs and he became deeply involved in the socialist revolution to oust Cuba’s United States puppet dictators and to free his country from ‘yanqui’ imperialism.