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 ...

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

Somewhere beneath the scrubby limestone terrain of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a team of archaeologists has uncovered what ...

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 ...

A team of archaeologists working near the small village of Poxilá, roughly 50 miles south of Mérida in Mexico’s Yucatán state ...

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 ...

An indigenous man kicks the ball during a Mayan ball game match in Tecpan, Guatemala Dressed in shorts, girdle and uncovered torso, members of eleven teams from the Guatemalan indigenous departments ...

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 ...