“¿Qué?” was the response to the origin of mysterious Mayan artefacts when they began appearing on the antiquities market in the 1960s. The confusion persisted and the tongue-in-cheek name “Site Q” stuck. But a recent find has pinpointed the site at last.
The stone panels were richly inscribed with Mayan hieroglyphs and told the history of a ruling family. They included the snake-head symbols that are the mark of Calakmul, one of two dominant Mayan states dating from between AD 700 and 800. But the carvings were clearer because they were in harder rock than at Calakmul, in modern day…
