Archaeologists working at the Chichén Itzá site on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico recently made a stunning discovery — a ...

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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.

A stone scoreboard used in an ancient soccer-like ball game has been discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, archaeologists said this week.

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a “rare” 1,200-year-old tablet they believe to be a scoreboard for an ancient Mayan ball game. Around the outside of the pair is a series of hieroglyphic ...

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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 ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a “rare” 1,200-year-old tablet they believe to be a scoreboard for an ancient Mayan ball game. Around the outside of the pair is a series of hieroglyphic ...