Researchers believe these ball courts were intended for a ritual and quite violent game ... The ancient Maya civilization ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was standing in Garcia’s jungle-like garden in San Antonio, a small Mayan village in the western district of Cayo, in Belize ... a prized game animal, all of which the rangers confiscated.