Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/July 2014

• ...that after the Aztec Coatlicue statue (pictured) was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a cult?
• ... that human sacrifice among the pre-Columbian Maya was performed in a number of ways, including decapitation, heart extraction, shooting with bow and arrows and disembowelment?
• ... that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia, Guatemala, was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations?