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?