Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/October 2012
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- ... 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?