Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/October 2013

• ... that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?
• ... that in 1697 the culmination of the Spanish conquest of Petén resulted in the defeat of the last independent native kingdom in the Americas?
• ... that Juan Pedro Laporte was described in an obituary as the father of Guatemalan archaeology?