San Bartolo (Maya site)

King (impersonating the hero Hunahpu) piercing his penis with a spear to spill sacrificial blood. Fragment of west mural, San Bartolo

San Bartolo is a small pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the Department of Petén in northern Guatemala, northeast of Tikal and roughly fifty miles from the nearest settlement.^[1] San Bartolo's fame derives from its splendid Late-Preclassic mural paintings still heavily influenced by Olmec tradition and from examples of early and as yet undecipherable Maya script.

^ Harvard Gazette: Oldest Mayan mural found by Peabody researcher

[hno-1] Harvard Gazette: Oldest Mayan mural found by Peabody researcher

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