The ancient Maya often built large ball courts in the center of their cities. The courts served for sports, social gatherings, and ceremonies. New excavations show that they blessed the sites ...

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 ...

Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed their ball courts with ritual offerings, an indicator of how much sport meant to the Maya communities. In their new ...

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 ...

In one graphic depiction on the walls of the monumental ninth-century Maya ball court at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán, serpents and squash plants sprout from the neck of a kneeling, decapitated ...

The Maya believed that lightning from the sky ... [BILL] So this is one of the largest ball courts in Mesoamerica, also one of the most beautifully decorated. They wanted to have everyone ...

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 ...