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COPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd.
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Byline: From Geoff Hill in Oaxaca, Mexico
HIDDEN among the jagged peaks and thick jungle of Chiapas, the great Mayan ruin of Palenque was much as John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood found it in 1840.
The quixotic pair of Victorian explorers spent months camped in its covered galleries, plagued by mosquitoes, gnats and a constantly failing bid to get fresh bread and lard.
It fell to an even more eccentric archaeologist, Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, though, to uncover Palenque's most...
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