Along with Tikal and Calakmul, Palenque was one of the most powerful cities of the Classic Maya, seat of one of the most notable dynasties to which Pakal belongs, whose tomb was discovered in 1952 by the archaeologist Alberto Ruz L'Huillier. Like all Classic Maya cities, Palenque was related to others through commercial exchange networks or alliances between groups of rulers. The territory was organized from the existence of city-states, whose centers have been identified by the presence of the so-called emblem glyph, but the basis of this organization: exchange, alliances and of course war, supposes a constant mobility of the same. But the hieroglyphic inscriptions not only offer the identification of the site, they also give account of the matrimonial and political alliances and the warlike situations between cities. The Mayan inscriptions have been widely studied as one of the first manifestations of writing in Mesoamerica.