The discovery of a carved game board in a Maya compound has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of everyday life that survived roughly 1,500 years underground. Instead of a portable ...

An indigenous man kicks the ball during a Mayan ball game match in Tecpan, Guatemala Dressed in shorts, girdle and uncovered torso, members of eleven teams from the Guatemalan indigenous departments ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a unique mosaic-style board game in the Mayan city of Naachtun, Guatemala, offering fresh insights into gaming practices in the ancient world. Patolli is ...

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 ...

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 ...