Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/August 2014

• ... that the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
• ... that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico, the making of amate, or bark paper, never disappeared?
• ... that the Kejache, a Maya people with a former territory straddling the modern border of Mexico and Guatemala, may have been descended from the inhabitants of the great Maya city of Calakmul?