Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/September 2013




 * ... that the ruins of the Maya city of Mixco Viejo (pictured) in Guatemala received their name because they were believed to be the remains of another city entirely?
 * ... that according to indigenous chronicles, the Chajomá kingdom was one of the three principal kingdoms in highland Guatemala before the Spanish Conquest?
 * ... that the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, produced by Nahua artists in the 1530s, is one of the earliest maps of what is now Guatemala?