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== The Maya Classic city ==

[[Image:Palenque_tall_temple_stairs.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Temple of the Cross]]

While the site was occupied by the middle Pre-Classic, it did not gain importance until several hundred years later. By [[600]] the first of the famous structures now visible were being constructed. Situated in the western reaches of Maya territory, on the edge of the southern highlands, B'aakal was a large and vital center of Maya civilization from the [[5th century]] AD to the [[9th century]].