Interestingly, the ball courts seem to have been used as ritual centers for more than just the ball game. One line of evidence is that a handful of larger ones would have been waaaay too big to ...

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 ones ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...