Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/May 2014




 * ... that art historian George Kubler declared The Wrestler (pictured), an ancient Olmec statuette, "among the great works of sculpture of all ages"?
 * ... that the final version of the 33-metre-high (108 ft) Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was completely destroyed by archaeologists in 1965?
 * ...that from around 900 to 1500 the Mixtec people wrote using pictorial representations and symbols?