Looking south from Structure 61, one gazes across Court 2 of the Central Acropolis to the three-doored, two-storied Structure 65. It is better known as Maler's Palace because, reputedly, this is the building in which Austrian explorer Teobert Maler chose to set up his camp in the course of his investigations at Tikal. The denomination "palace" has been somewhat arbitrarily given to all non-pyramidal, range-type structures, although their actual use or uses were not necessarily limited to elite residential complexes, as their modern nickname would suggest.


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