Archaeologists working at the Chichén Itzá site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico recently made a stunning discovery — a 1,100-year-old stone believed to be a scoreboard for an ancient Mesoamerican ...

Ancient Mayan stone scoreboard is discovered after 1,000 YEARS: Archaeologists find a disk depicting a bizarre game involving a ball that contained the ashes of dead rulers ...

Archaeologists in southeastern Mexico recently unearthed an ancient crypt dating back more than 1,000 years and made a ...

Archaeologists at Chichén Itzá unearthed a heavy stone with carvings of two ball players and complete Mayan hieroglyphic text, photos show. 1,100-year-old monument to Mayan ball game found in ...

Discover all about the Maya ball game pitz and find out why it was so important to the Maya in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a “rare” 1,200-year-old tablet they believe to be a scoreboard for an ancient Mayan ball game.

STUART: Well, this stone is of a certain kind that the ancient Maya carved for their ball courts for these ceremonial ball games. And we have similar examples from other places.

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archeologists have found an ancient scoreboard used by Mayans during a ball game. The stone disk was found at Chichén Itzá, an ...

A Mesoamerican ball game, between sport and ritual By Pierre Barthélémy Published on August 4, 2024, ... Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; ...

Archaeologists at Chichén Itzá unearthed a heavy stone with carvings of two ball players and complete Mayan hieroglyphic text, photos show. 1,100-year-old monument to Mayan ball game found in ...

Archeologists have found an ancient scoreboard used by Mayans during a ball game. The stone disk was found at Chichén Itzá, an iconic ancient city in Yucutan, Mexico, and dates back to the late ...