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- A Mesoamerican ballcourt (Nahuatl languages: tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the...
- to racquetball, where the aim is to keep the ball in play. The stone ballcourt goals are a late addition to the game.[citation needed] In the most common...
- effect alone. Archeologists have identified in Chichen Itza thirteen ballcourts for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame, but the Great Ball Court about...
- taken place. The surviving architecture, which includes a Mesoamerican ballcourt, temples and palaces, has been badly damaged by the looting of stone to...
- depicted Mayan mythology, warriors, captives, rulers, and ceremonies. The ballcourt in Cerros is contemporary and date to the Tulix ceramic phase (100BC-100AD)...
- Architecturally, city buildings included palaces, pyramid-temples, ceremonial ballcourts, and structures specially aligned for astronomical observation. The Maya...
- found 8m southeast of Ballcourt A, and BCM 2 was found in the center of Ballcourt B. Discovered northwest of the B-Group Ballcourt. Erected by K'inich Joy...
- achievement of Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kawiil was Ballcourt A-III. It is one of the most imposing Mesoamerican ballcourts in the region, surp****ed only by that of...
- six houses that served as the first tests of Xibalba, and the Xibalban ballcourt. Also mentioned are the homes of the Lords, gardens, and other structures...
- Ixbalanque, the positioning of such ballcourt markers on the east and west sides of north-south oriented ballcourts would represent Qʼuqʼumatz carrying...