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?