One of the many things the ancient Maya are remembered for is their ball game, which they called pitz. This game is more than 3,000 years old. 300 courts have been found, and they were in the ...

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization ... hallucinogenic plants on the ball game fields, which they presume ...

The Maya crafted rubber balls for their ballgames in a highly unusual way: by mixing rubber with ash from their cremated rulers. In 2020, researchers found what they believed to be evidence of ...

PHOTOGRAPHED AT MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO DE CAMPECHE FUERTE DE SAN MIGUEL These visits might seem innocuous now—orchestrating a wedding, playing an ancient Maya ball game (a sport involving a ball ...

Distinguished by its highly expressive relief sculpture, Palenque comprises temples, terraces, plazas, altars, burial grounds, and a ball court ... the life of the ancient Maya.

and ceremonies that featured a ball game and human sacrifice. The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics ...