The court is one of the smallest in Maya history. Image caption ... rituals and ceremonies. The ball games we play today are much less deadly, but there are still some similarities.

Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed their ball courts with ritual offerings ... to keep the heavy rubber ball in play, which they did by bouncing ...

A bundle of botanicals buried at an ancient Maya ball court in Mexico may have been placed there as part of a ritual, according to a new study. Archaeologists made the discovery while conducting ...