In a remote corner of northwestern Mexico, six men in leather loincloths volley a heavy rubber ball across a dirt court, using only their hips. They dive and leap like overly muscled ballerinas, ...

The discovery of a carved game board in a Maya compound has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of everyday life that survived roughly 1,500 years underground. Instead of a portable ...

Archaeologists working at Naachtun, a Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, have uncovered a unique fifth-century patolli board. Patolli or patole is one of the oldest known games in America. It was a ...

Indie game developer and publisher CollectorVision Games confirmed the release date for more console platforms today for Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan. The team revealed that it will be ...

Carefully digging through the soot-colored soil at an iconic pyramid in Mexico, archaeologists hit something hard. They took a closer look and quickly realized this was no ordinary stone. The ...

A team of archaeologists has been excavating the Maya city of Tonina in southern Mexico, but some experts disagree with their claims. The archaeologists released a Spanish-language statement in which ...

Dig-It! Games has released Maya Quiz, a new iPad app that offers information about Maya archaeology, history and culture. The game features more than 100 factual, randomized trivia questions about the ...

A 1,500 year old Mayan altar discovered in a small archeological site in northern Guatemala is drawing comparisons to popular fantasy drama television series "Game of Thrones" for its descriptions of ...