Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led...

pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th-century bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa, recorded as part of his documentation of the Maya civilization. Despite...

gymnast Diego José de Cádiz (1743–1801), Spanish Capuchin friar Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor Diego Lerman...

of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh. Depending on the source, most names are either Yucatec...

tribes of Israel. One of the first to recognise the distinction was Diego de Landa in a 1566 manuscript: "At times they sacrificed their own blood, cutting...

footballer Benny Landa (born 1946) Israeli entrepreneur and inventor Diego de Landa (1524 – 1579), fourth bishop of Yucatán Daniel Landa (born 1968), Czech...

ancient Maya people who would conduct sacrifices into it. As Friar Diego de Landa observed in 1566 after visiting Chichen Itza: "Into this well they have...

the authority of Omnimoda, missionary priests such as Martín de Valencia and Diego de Landa acted as agents of the Inquisition in the Americas. The bull...

Relación de las cosas de Yucatán was written by Diego de Landa around 1566, shortly after his return from Yucatán to Spain. In it, de Landa catalogues...

Christian Europeans of the time viewing such texts as pagan, men like Diego de Landa burned them, even while seeking to preserve native histories. Only a...