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Name of Maya Queen Identified
Archaeology Magazine ^
| October 29, 2025
| editors / unattributed
Posted on 11/06/2025 6:30:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv
According to a Live Science report, the name of a previously unknown Maya queen has been deciphered from an inscription discovered last year on a staircase at Cobá, an urban center on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula that was occupied from about 350 B.C. into the fourteenth century. Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) named the staircase Foundation Rock. Although its 123 hieroglyphic panels have been damaged by erosion, David Stuart of the University of Texas at Austin and Octavio Esparza Olguín of the National Autonomous University of Mexico were able to match one of the Foundation Rock panels with inscriptions on two steles in the city. The three sources all refer to the Maya queen Ix Ch'ak Ch'een, who ruled Cobá in the sixth century A.D., and the Foundation Rock text mentions her coronation. Her name is also associated in one of the texts with a ball court noted to have been built around December 8, A.D. 573. For more, go to "Around the World: Mexico."
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; mayans; precolumbian; queen
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11/06/2025 6:30:45 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
11/06/2025 6:31:06 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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posted on
11/06/2025 6:38:18 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ix Ch’ak Ch’een.......
Wonder what it means?....
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posted on
11/06/2025 6:40:29 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/06/2025 6:41:25 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/06/2025 6:41:33 AM PST
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Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
Ix-nay on the ak Ch’een chay.
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posted on
11/06/2025 6:58:17 AM PST
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Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
To: Larry Lucido
🙄😁...............................
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posted on
11/06/2025 7:01:36 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I didn’t know her but Laz dated her sister...
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posted on
11/06/2025 7:08:07 AM PST
by
tet68
("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
Ix Ch’ak Ch’een.......
Wonder what it means?....
"Judy" - Queen Judy.
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11/06/2025 7:24:33 AM PST
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larrytown
(A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
Ix Ch’ak Ch’een.......Wonder what it means?.... It roughly translates to "Janet. Miss Jackson if you're nasty"
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posted on
11/06/2025 7:31:49 AM PST
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fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: SunkenCiv
I knew it wouldn’t be something that rolls right off the tongue.
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posted on
11/06/2025 8:03:21 AM PST
by
Buttons12
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To: larrytown
There will only ever be ONE QUEEN JUDY!...............
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11/06/2025 8:24:41 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Buttons12
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posted on
11/06/2025 8:47:13 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: Larry Lucido
Sure, but the clothes be noticeably musty in five years.
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posted on
11/06/2025 8:49:30 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
Why do I always see Cankles?
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posted on
11/06/2025 2:36:48 PM PST
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Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
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11/06/2025 3:19:20 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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