abstract:Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. He specialized in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal.
Muchscientific debt is owned to MexicanarchaeologistAlbertoRuz Lhuillier, whoin 1952 rolled awayastone inside theTempleofInscriptions and found the burial tomb of Pakal the Great.