With the advent of the 2004 transit of Venus, interest in historical observations of past transits has been rekindled. We present evidence suggesting that the Maya of the post-classic period actually observed at least one transit of Venus. The frescoes of Mayapan, which are proposed as a record of 12$^{{\rm th}$- or 13$^{{\rm th}}$-century transits, are described and discussed in their astronomical contextTo search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html