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 ...

Archaeologists discovered, through environmental DNA technology, that ceremonial rituals of the ancient Mayan civilization ... hallucinogenic plants on the ball game fields, which they presume ...

At the site of an ancient Maya ball court ... to get a blessing from and appease the gods.” The Maya invented and played several ball games, such as pok-a-tok, a “mix of soccer and basketball ...