Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/June 2017




 * ... that Jaina Island, a Maya necropolis, contains over 20,000 burials, with every one excavated having one or more ceramic figurines (example pictured)?
 * ... that conquistador Pedro de Portocarrero founded the first Spanish colonial town within the territory of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas?
 * ... that fragments of ancient Maya books have been recovered from the ruins of Guaytán in Guatemala?