- ... that the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
- ... that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico, the making of amate, or bark paper, never disappeared?
- ... that the Kejache, a Maya people with a former territory straddling the modern border of Mexico and Guatemala, may have been descended from the inhabitants of the great Maya city of Calakmul?