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 ...

At the site of an ancient Maya ball court, researchers have identified a bundle of ceremonial mind-altering plants—which may have been used as an offering to higher powers during the court’s ...

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 ...

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.

In 700-800 C.E., the ancient Maya would ascend a stairway to a temple at the pyramid ... an acropolis; three pyramids; a ball court; numerous houses; 58 stone monuments; and a nearly complete skeleton ...

This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucatán peninsula ... on the north-west are the Great Ball Court, Tzompantli or the Skull Wall, the temple known as the Jaguar Temple, and ...