Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/June 2014

... that Takalik Abaj, an archaeological site in lowland Guatemala (pictured), has one of the greatest concentrations of Olmec-style sculpture outside of the Gulf of Mexico coast?
...that at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Tarascan state was second only to the Aztec empire in size and population?
... that the royal Maya name Kan Ek', first recorded in the ninth century, was the name given to all of the Itza kings of central Petén?