Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/May 2017

• ... that K'inich Yat Ahk II (name glyph pictured), the last ruler of Piedras Negras, defeated the rival state of Pomona before his capture by K'inich Tatbu Skull IV of Yaxchilan?
• ... that the Peñol de Cerquín, a Lenca fortress in southern Honduras, successfully resisted the Spanish conquistadores for months?
• ... that the Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala was one of the first places to be settled in the Maya lowlands?