Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/April 2014

• ... that it is not known how the Paris Codex (pages pictured), one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, came to be in the collection of the Bibliothèque Imperiale in Paris in the 19th century?
• ... that Yohl Ik'nal, queen of the Classic Period Maya city of Palenque in Mexico, was the first known female Mayan ruler?
• ... that in Maya mythology, wayob were the powerful spirit forms of lords, priests and gods?