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

Archaeologists Unearth an Intricately Carved Circular Stone Used as a Scorecard for a Ball Game 1200 Years Ago Researchers ...

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 ...

A traditional ball game that dates back to the 12th Century is set to take over a town centre in Derbyshire once again. The Royal Shrovetide Football has taken place in Ashbourne every Shrove ...

This ancient form of football has a rule forbidding ... This is Royal Shrovetide — a centuries-old ball game played in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, that, frankly, looks nothing like the world's ...

This is the Atherstone Ball Game, an 826-year-old tradition in this Warwickshire town, and one of a dwindling number of ancient football games played across Britain on Shrove Tuesday, known as Fat ...

Katherine Ott, Nowhere were ancient ball games more sophisticated than in Mesoamerica (modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras). Little is known about the rules of the game you’re ...

Show more The game takes place over two eight-hour periods and the goals are nearly three miles apart at former mills on either side of the town. To 'goal' a ball the players must first reach the ...

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