Pochutla

In the Lacandon forest of eastern Chiapas stands Bonampak, an ancient Maya city associated with the name Ak’e. Its buildings occupy terraces above a plaza amid the forests of the Usumacinta basin. The Temple of the Paintings contains murals of remarkable detail, showing a royal court, warfare, captives and ceremony. Painted in the late Classic period, they preserve a vivid record of the people and political life of a Maya kingdom.