Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/August 2015

• ... that a new twin pyramid complex (east pyramid pictured) was built at the Maya city of Tikal every twenty years to celebrate the end of a Maya calendrical cycle?
• ...that the Tlaxcaltec forces led by Xicotencatl II "The Younger" had nearly defeated the army of Hernán Cortés when he was ordered to ally with them instead?
• ... that the private Miraflores Museum in Guatemala City has three mounds from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu in its grounds?