See how I cleverly included some human figures for scale. Actually in truth I had no choice. Although the site wasn't too busy, each time people would finally move out of shot, someone else seemed to move in immediately. The Temple Of Inscriptions was built in 675 AD, as a memorial to the recently deceaseed ruler Pakal the Great. The Mayan city of Palenque was founded in 226 BC and inhabited until around 800 AD, when it was pretty much abandoned, as the Mayans for various reasons began to leave the major cities and adopt a more rural way of life, Most of the important surviving structures date from 6th to 7th centuries AD.