The pok-ta-pok revival began in Mexico in the mid-1900s, but it only picked up steam over the past decade, with Belize ...

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 ...

Dressed in shorts, a sash, and bare-chested, members of indigenous cultural groups commemorated the March equinox this Saturday with a tournament of the ancestral Mayan ball game in a Guatemalan town.

It's well-known that the ancient Maya had their own version of ball games, which were played with a rubber ball on stone courts. Such games served not just as athletic events but also religious ...

The ancient Mayan ball game is part of celebrations that will finish next December 21, when the current 5200-year cycle comes to an end and a new era begins in the Mayan calender.

The team of researchers identified traces of hallucinogenic plants on the ball game fields, which they presume were used in rituals to bless the site. The discovery was made in the Helena complex ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a “rare” 1,200-year-old tablet they believe to be a scoreboard for an ancient Mayan ball game. Around the outside of the pair is a series of hieroglyphic ...