Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/January 2016
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- ... that the North Acropolis (pictured) at the ancient Maya city of Tikal served as a royal necropolis and contains the tombs of a number of identified Maya rulers?
- ...that the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén in Guatemala was built to offset damage from a highway construction project?
- ...that the archaeological cave of Juxtlahuaca contains Mesoamerica's earliest sophisticated painted art, as well as its only known example of non-Maya deep cave art?