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?