Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/September 2015

• ...that the archaeological cave of Juxtlahuaca contains Mesoamerica's earliest sophisticated painted art (pictured), as well as its only known example of non-Maya deep cave art?
• ...that on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed, flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year?
• ... that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule?