Fanny López Jiménez (born Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, 1970) is a Mexican archaeologist known for her excavations at

Palenque Palenque (; Yucatec Maya language, Yucatec Maya: ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamhaʼ ("Big Water or Big Waters"), was a Maya city City-state, state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins dat ...

, including the discovery of the

Tomb of the Red Queen The Tomb of the Red Queen is a burial chamber containing the remains of a noblewoman, perhaps Lady Ix Tz'akbu Ajaw, and two servants, located inside Temple XIII in the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Palenque, now the Palenque National Park, i ...

. López Jiménez studied archaeology at the

National School of Anthropology and History National School of Anthropology and History (in Spanish: ''Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, ENAH'') is a Mexican Institution of higher education founded in 1938 and a prominent center for the study of Anthropology and History in the A ...

in Mexico City. She completed her first fieldwork in Lagartero near

Comitán Comitán (; formally: Comitán de Domínguez, for Belisario DomínguezComitán de Do ...

and shortly after, in 1991, performed excavation practices in Palenque, on the north side El Palacio. The remains of the Red Queen were found on 11 April 1994 in the Temple XIII internal substructure. After further research it was López Jiménez who proposed that the identity of the formerly unknown woman was Hun K'Anleum, "Señora 1 Telaraña" ("Lady 1 Cobweb") in her article "Quién es la Reina Roja?" (Who is the Red Queen?) in ''

Arqueología Mexicana ''Arqueología Mexicana'' (Mexican Archaeology) is a bimonthly journal published by Editorial Raíces and the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History). The first issue, devoted to Teot ...

''.Quién es la Reina Roja?
''Arqueología Mexicana''. Retrieved 31 December 2014. López Jiménez is married to Hector Escobar.

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*http://remarq.ning.com/profile/FannyLopezJimenez Mexican archaeologists 1970 births Living people People from Chiapas Mexican women archaeologists {{archaeologist-stub