Tajal Chan Ahk

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|name=Tajal Chan Ahk

|title=Ajaw

|image=Tajal Chan Ahk.jpg

|caption=Detail of the portrait of the ruler, on Panel 3

| reign= 22 October 757–799

| succession=King of Cancuén

|predecessor=

|successor=Kan Maax

|spouse=

|issue=Kan Maax

|birth_date=12 April 742

|birth_place=Cancuén

|death_date={{Death date and age|799|||742|4|12|df=y}}

|death_place=Cancuén

|religion=Maya religion

|father=

|mother=

}}

Tajal Chan Ahk was an 8th-century ruler of the Maya city Cancuén, whose rule lasted from 757 to c. 799.

He built the city's palace in 770.

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  • {{cite book |author=Demarest, Arthur A. |author-link=Arthur Demarest |year=2006 |title=The Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Maya Collapse |series=Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology series, vol. 1 |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |isbn=978-0-8265-1520-9 |oclc=63178772}}
  • {{cite journal |author=Moran, Melanie |author2=Mimi Koumenalis |date=2005-11-18 |title=Royal massacre signals the beginning of the end of the Maya empire |url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/mayamassacre.html |journal=Exploration: Vanderbilt's Online Research Magazine |publisher=Vanderbilt University |location=Nashville, TN |accessdate=2008-05-02 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306174341/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/mayamassacre.html |archivedate=2008-03-06 }}
  • {{cite journal |author=Pérez, Sonia |date=2005-06-03 |title=Hallan tumba de familia real de Cancuén: Once presuntos familiares de rey habrían sido muertos en Petén en 850 d. C |url=http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2005/junio/03/115808.html |format=online edition |journal=Prensa Libre |location=Guatemala |publisher=Prensa Libre S.A. |oclc=12565005 |accessdate=2008-05-02 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080416213809/http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2005/junio/03/115808.html |archivedate = 2008-04-16|language=es}}
  • {{cite web |author=Skidmore, Joel |date=2005-11-19 |title=Cancuen in the News |url=http://www.mesoweb.com/reports/cancuen_news.html |work=Mesoweb Reports and News |publisher=Mesoweb |accessdate=2008-05-02}}

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Category:8th-century deaths

Category:Kings of Cancuén

Category:Year of birth unknown

Category:8th-century Maya people

Category:8th-century monarchs in North America

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