Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/October 2012

... that women who wish to participate in the Danza de los Voladores (pictured) in Papantla must ritually ask forgiveness for being a woman?
... that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
... that Q'umarkaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals?