The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most popular among the Mesoamerican civilizations, but the Olmecs came first.

Wupatki National Monuments is the perfect place to walk back in time and see what life was like 900 years ago.

Chichén Itzá — with its pyramid of Kukulkán, the mythological feathered serpent, the Mesoamerican ballgame, its astronomical ...

How This Mayan Legend Inspired a Deadly Ballgame In ancient Mayan lore, the world of the living was directly connected to the underworld: Xibalba. This belief was central to many facets of Mayan ...

PHOTOGRAPHED AT MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO DE CAMPECHE FUERTE DE SAN MIGUEL These visits might seem innocuous now—orchestrating a wedding, playing an ancient Maya ball game (a sport involving a ball ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an intricately carved stone they believe was used as a scoreboard for pelota, a ball game played by the Maya hundreds of years ago. The circular stone was ...

Part of 260 day Mesoamerican or Maya calendar. Aztec players play a rubber ball game, the Mesoamerican ballgame Aztec players play a rubber ball game. The Mesoamerican ballgame is a 3600 years old ...

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 ...

What games did the Mayas play? Find out about the famous Maya ball game and learn the importance of this game to the ancient Mayas. What did the ancient Maya wear? Find out about clothing and ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

The museum also houses two 15th-century deerskin codices detailing the political and religious histories of the Mixtec people, a sculpture of the plumed serpent deity Quetzalcóatl and a carved stone ...