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.

While no one knows the exact rules of the Mayan ball game, Spaniards who saw the Aztec games in the 1500s reported that two teams of two to five players had to ...

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17 авг. 2022 г. · The answer to both questions is no; the players were most likely not sacrificed, and the ball wasn't meant to go through the hoop, although it ...

The Maya ball game (MBG) originated more than 3000 years ago. As best as is now known from archaeological and iconographical sources as well as the ...

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The game the Spanish witnessed in the Aztec region was just one manifestation of a long-lived and wide-ranging ballgame tradition in Mesoamerica. Cultures ...

Maya ballgame was often used as a political move in order to establish a hierarchy between individuals of a similar region. It is a common misconception that ...

The ballgame was more than just a sport or entertainment for the ancient Maya. They might have seen the ballgame as the re-enactment of the battle between life ...

The object of the game was to put a rubber ball through the hoop. When teams from various Maya cities, or various parts of the same city, were playing each ...