Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/November 2016

• ... that the Dresden Codex (pictured) is the earliest known book written in the Americas?
• ... that the 16th-century K'iche' language document Título C'oyoi contains an account of the death of the K'iche Maya hero Tecun Uman during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala?
• ... that the K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj in Central America was conquered when the Kaqchikel people allied with a Spanish force?