It's well-known that the ancient Maya had their own version of ball games, which were played with a rubber ball on stone courts. Such games served not just as athletic events but also religious ...

The Maya played games like pok-a-tok, in which players hit a rubber ball through a stone circle such as this one in the ancient city of Chichen Itza. University of Cincinnati / LanaCanada At the ...

An environmental DNA analysis of soil collected at an ancient Maya ball court reveals that the site was once part of a ritual. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed their ball courts with ritual offerings, an indicator of how much sport meant to the Maya communities. In their new ...

When researchers excavated part of the ball court, they found a mysterious structure beneath it. Octavio Esparza Olguín Researchers have found a mysterious ancient structure beneath a Maya ball ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an intricately carved stone they believe was used as a scoreboard for pelota, a ball game played by the Maya hundreds of years ago. The circular stone was ...