Bird ClawW
Bird Claw

Bird Claw, also known as Animal Skull I and Ete I, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal. The monument associated with Bird Claw is Stelae 8. He carried a high-ranking name but no Tikal emblem.

Bʼutz Aj Sak ChiikW
Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik

Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, also known as Manik,, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He took the throne on July 28, 487, reigning until 501. He was likely the brother of Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I.

Chak Tok Ichʼaak IIW
Chak Tok Ichʼaak II

Chak Tok Ichʼaak II, also known as Jaguar Paw II and Jaguar Paw Skull, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal. He took the throne c. 486 and reigned until his death. He was son of Kʼan Chitam and Lady Tzutz Nik. The monuments associated with Chak Tok Ichʼaak II are Stelae 3, 7, 15, 21, and possibly 26.

Kʼan Joy Chitam IW
Kʼan Joy Chitam I

Kʼan Joy Chitam I, also known as Hok, Kan Xul I and Kʼan Hokʼ Chitam I, was an ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque. He took the throne on February 6, 529 at age 34, ending an interregnum that had lasted for a little over four years.

Kaloomteʼ BahlamW
Kaloomteʼ Bahlam

Kaloomteʼ Bahlam, also known as Curl Head, was an ajaw or lord of the Maya city of Tikal. He took the throne on c. 511. He co-ruled with a Lady of Tikal. The monuments associated with Kaloomteʼ Bahlam are Stelae 10, 12 and 25.

Kan Bahlam IW
Kan Bahlam I

Kan Bahlam I, also known as Chan Bahlum I, was an ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque. He acceded to the throne on April 6, 572 at age 47 and ruled until his death. Kan Bahlam was most likely the younger brother of his predecessor, Ahkal Mo' Nahb II and probably son of K'an Joy Chitam I. He was the first ruler of Palenque to use the title K'inich, albeit inconsistently. The title is usually translated as "radiant" but literally means "sun-faced".

Kʼakʼ Chan YopaatW
Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat

Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat was the eleventh dynastic ruler at Copán. He was crowned as king in AD 578, 24 days after the death of Tzi-Bʼalam. At the time of his rule Copán was undergoing an unprecedented rise in population, with residential land use spreading to all available land in the entire Copán Valley. The two surviving stelae of Kʼakʼ Chan Yopaat contain long hard-to-decipher hieroglyphic texts and are the oldest monuments at the site to survive without being either broken or buried. He had a long reign, ruling at Copán for 49 years, and he died on 5 February 628. His name is recorded on four stelae erected by his successors, one of which describes a rite performed with relics from his tomb in AD 730, almost a hundred years after his death.

Lady of TikalW
Lady of Tikal

Lady of Tikal, also known as Woman of Tikal, was a queen of the Mayan city of Tikal. She took the throne on April 19, 511 and reigned until about 527.

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb IW
Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, also known as Chaacal and Akul Anab I,, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He ruled from June 5, 501 AD to his death.

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb IIW
Ahkal Moʼ Nahb II

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb II also known as Chaacal II and Akul Anab II, was an ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque. He took the throne on May 2, 565, eighty-five days after the death of Kʼan Joy Chitam I. He was the grandson of Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I and probably the brother of Kan Bahlam I.

Rulers of TikalW
Rulers of Tikal

The known rulers of Tikal, a major centre of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization in modern-day Guatemala:

Scroll SerpentW
Scroll Serpent

Scroll Serpent was a Maya ruler of the Kaan kingdom. He ruled from AD 579 to 611. He acceded on September 2.

Tuun Kʼabʼ HixW
Tuun Kʼabʼ Hix

Tuun Kʼabʼ Hix was a Maya king of the Kaan Kingdom.

Wak Chan KʼawiilW
Wak Chan Kʼawiil

Wak Chan Kʼawiil, also known as Double Bird, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal. He took the throne on December 27, 537(?) and reigning probably until his death. He was son of Chak Tok Ichʼaak II and Lady Hand. He sponsored accession of Yajaw Teʼ Kʼinich II, ruler of Caracol in 553. The monument associated with Wak Chan Kʼawiil is Stelae 17.

Yajaw Teʼ Kʼinich IIW
Yajaw Teʼ Kʼinich II

Yajaw Teʼ Kʼinich II was a king of the Mayan state Caracol in Belize. He was also known as Ruler III, Lord Water and Lord Muluc and reigned AD 553-593>.

Yax YopaatW
Yax Yopaat

Yax Yopaat was a Maya king of the Kaan kingdom (Calakmul) who ruled AD 572-579.

Yohl IkʼnalW
Yohl Ikʼnal

Yohl Ikʼnal, also known as Lady Kan Ik and Lady Kʼanal Ikʼnal, was queen regnant of the Maya city-state of Palenque. She acceded to the throne on 23 December 583, and ruled until her death.

Yuknoom Chʼeen IW
Yuknoom Chʼeen I

Yuknoom Chʼeen I was the first known Maya king of the Kaan Kingdom. He was maybe a father of King Tuun Kʼabʼ Hix.