Different towns have different rules, but here the aim is to get the ball to the other end of the court. One of the many things the ancient Maya are remembered for is their ball game, which they ...

At the site of an ancient Maya ball court, researchers have identified a bundle of ceremonial mind-altering plants—which may ...

a ball court, and a number of palaces, including the magnificent Three-Storey Palace with its rounded columns. Uaxactún, which means "eight-stone" in Yucatec Maya and is named for the earliest ...

The Maya and Toltec vision of the world and the universe is revealed ... on the north-west are the Great Ball Court, Tzompantli or the Skull Wall, the temple known as the Jaguar Temple, and the House ...

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 ...