Sports are an integral part of modern society. Going far beyond entertainment, sports and sports teams, ranging from high ...

Image caption, This is the ‘Great Maya ball court’ in Chichén ... was played instead of going to war. Human sacrifice was probably part of the games, with perhaps the losing captain or ...

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 ...