The back of the huge and fairly well preserved roofcomb of Tikal's Temple VI (better known as the Temple of the Inscriptions) still displays much of a very long inscription concerning Tikal's dynastic history. The fact that most of this temple's substructure still lies unexcavated, covered with the debris of centuries, diguises the fact that this temple is indeed a very large one. Oddly enough and despite its size, its rediscovery happened in relatively recent times (in 1951).


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