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 ones ...

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 site ...

Archaeologists working in northwestern Yucatan have identified a formal Maya ball court that may date as far back as 2,800 ...

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization at the Yaxnohcah ruins (Yucatán Peninsula) were conducted with hallucinogens.

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 court ...

A baseball player may tap his helmet three times before stepping up to the plate, and an Argentina supporter may burn incense in front of a portrait of Diego Maradona as the Albiceleste kick off. Now, ...

A team of archaeologists working near the small village of Poxilá, roughly 50 miles south of Mérida in Mexico’s Yucatán state, has identified a rare Maya ball court that dates to the Middle Preclassic ...

The structures sit atop the low walls of the court, where the Mayas played a game that consisted, as far as experts can tell, of knocking a heavy, latex ball with their elbows, knees or hips, through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists scanning through jungle terrain stumbled on what could have once been an important Maya location. The team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lidar-created image showing the site with the ball court where parts of an underground structure were found. | Credit: ...