Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/November 2016

... that the Dresden Codex (pictured) is the earliest known book written in the Americas?
... that the 16th-century K'iche' language document Título C'oyoi contains an account of the death of the K'iche Maya hero Tecun Uman during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala?
... that the K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj in Central America was conquered when the Kaqchikel people allied with a Spanish force?