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 ...

The Mayan ball game marker was likely part of an archway near the Casa Colorada until the structure collapsed, experts said in the release. The monument will be further studied to understand the ...

Detail of the ball game in the archaeological site of Tonina, Chiapas, Mexico, in an undated photo. Researchers found a crypt where the bodies of the elite in Mayan society were cremated.

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

The ballcourt at the Ancient Mayan city of Yaxnohcah revealed four medicinal plants that were used in a ritual.

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.

A month after Wimbledon, Feedback’s summer of sport travels to Central America and a claim that one ancient Mayan ball game required some extremely specialist equipment. As if the capital “I ...

Indigenous communities from Guatemala and El Salvador gathered in Tecpán to commemorate the March equinox with a tournament of the ancestral Mayan ball game.

Experts have found a "special" ritual deposit below an ancient ball court that includes psychoactive and ceremonial plant remains.

The Mayan ball game marker was likely part of an archway near the Casa Colorada until the structure collapsed, experts said in the release. The monument will be further studied to understand the ...