Photos of Palenque, Mexico taken by Galen R. Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Palenque Palenque in the morning mist Palenque, ancient city of Mexico, located in what is now Chiapas State, near the village of Palenque. The ruins consist of basal platforms supporting pyramids of cut stone, surmounted by stone temples with mansard roofs. Most of the buildings are one story high.
Walls have relief figures and hieroglyphic inscriptions, which relate events in royal history.
An arched bridge and a subterranean waterway also remain.