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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...