Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/April 2017




 * ... that the Maya archaeological site of La Corona (sculpture pictured) is the enigmatic and long-sought "Site Q"?"
 * ... that the name of the endangered language isolate Huave, spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, probably comes from a Zapotec word meaning "people of the sea", but that the Huave call themselves Ikoots and their language ombeayiiüts, "our language"?"
 * ... that the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs?"