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The Red Queen

The Tomb of the Red Queen is a burial chamber containing the remains of a noblewoman, perhaps Lady Ix Tz'akbu Ajaw, and two servants, located inside Temple XIII in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Palenque, now the, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It has been dated to between 600 and 700 AD. The tomb was discovered in 1994 by the Mexican archeologist Fanny Lopez Jimenez after being commissioned to perform routine stabilization work on a set of temple stairs by the local Archaeologist Arnoldo González Cruz . It takes its popular name from the fact that the remains of the noblewoman and the objects in the sarcophagus were covered with bright red cinnabar powder when the tomb was discovered.

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Bowl (earthenware with slip paint) of the ancient Maya. Side C, shown here, depicts a seated human figure who is one of four on the bowl. The figures wear either black body-paint or black spots on the torso, iconography whose precise meaning is unknown, as is the significance of the gestures of the four. The bowl dates to ca. 550-850 CE (the Late Classic period of Maya civilization) and measures 16 cm (6.3 in) high x 16.5 cm (6.5 in) in diameter. From Campeche, Mexico, it is now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.