Lord Pakal was a powerful Mayan ruler from the ancient city of Palenque (in modern day Chiapas in Mexico) between 615 and 683 C.E. Lord Pakal and his descendants commissioned a great deal of monumental art and architecture in this Mayan capital. At his death, Lord Pakal was laid to rest in a sarcophagus; in his tomb archaeologists found a portrait of the ruler as a young man with a crown of jade and flowers. He is thought to be represented according to Mayan ideals of beauty, which emphasize a long, sloping face and skull, and full lips. Traces of red paint indicate that the piece used to be painted, as was most Mayan sculpture.